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" Postmodernism and public policy : "
John B. Cobb, Jr
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BL
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585592
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GBA214219b414811
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| Main Entry
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Cobb, John B
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Postmodernism and public policy : : reframing religion, culture, education, sexuality, class, race, politics, and the economy /\ John B. Cobb, Jr
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, ©2002
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SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought
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xvi, 206 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0791451658
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: 9780791451656
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: 0791451666
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: 9780791451663
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-198) and index
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| Abstract
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"Postmodernism and Public Policy shows how a postmodern Christianity can contribute positively to thinking about religious and cultural pluralism, and how this can give direction to the educational enterprise. It proposes ways of understanding sex, gender, and race that take diversity seriously without lapsing into a debilitating relativism that inhibits political action. Arguing for a shift from individualism to thinking of persons-in-community, it proposes that the world be organized from the bottom up in communities of communities, and spells out what this implies for the political and economic orders and the relationship between them. Cobb shows that formulations on all these topics can be coherently interconnected and he develops the implications of such thinking for some specific ethical and political issues that now trouble the United States, such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and homosexuality."--Jacket
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Postmodern theology
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Christianity and politics
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Postmodernism-- Political aspects
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BT83.597.C63 2002
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