Isaiah in Liberation Theology

2020 ◽  
pp. 636-654
Author(s):  
Carol J. Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Globalized World

Liberation theology is now more than fifty years old, and the book of Isaiah has played a prominent role in shaping it and continues to influence it today as theologians and Bible scholars strive to articulate a vision of justice for all creation. This essay explores the use of the Isaian text in the work of liberation theologians. Next, the essay highlights how the book becomes foundational to the work of liberationist Bible scholars read Isaiah in the context of today’s globalized world. The essay then moves from an anthropocentric focus to a cosmological one to discuss how some liberation theologians now recognize the interrelatedness of human and nonhuman suffering and the interlocking oppressions that all communities of life are experiencing. A conclusion offers a ringing call to read Isaiah from feminist and womanist perspectives to expose the systemic and structural injustices and forms of oppression that exist in today’s twenty-first-century world. Despite being more than fifty years old, liberation theology, its use of Isaiah, and its work of liberation has only just begun.

Twenty-First-Century Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthold Schoene
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Global Relations

This chapter looks at how the contemporary British and Irish novel is becoming part of a new globalized world literature, which imagines the world as it manifests itself both within (‘glocally’) and outside nationalist demarcations. At its weakest, often against its own best intentions, this new cosmopolitan writing cannot but simply reinscribe the old imperial power relations. Or, it provides an essential component of the West’s ideological superstructure for globalization’s neoliberal business of rampant upward wealth accumulation. At its best, however, this newly emergent genre promotes a cosmopolitan ethics of justice, resistance. It also promotes dissent while working hard to expose and deconstruct the extant hegemonies and engaging in a radical imaginative recasting of global relations.

Communicative Reason and Religious Faith in Secular and Postsecular Contexts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Goodson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Communicative Rationality ◽  
Philosophical Theory ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
Communicative Reason ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Globalized World

The German philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas has shifted his position of defending secularism to now defending postsecularism This chapter describes Habermas’s usage of the terms “secularity,” “secularism,” and “postsecularism” and explains how Habermas’s usage of these three terms is best understood in relation to his philosophical theory of communicative rationality. The shift from secularism to postsecularism is based on the fact that the latter allows for better communication between religious believers and nonreligious citizens in the globalized world of the twenty-first century. Habermas argues that the secular academy has responsibilities toward the positive aspects of religious faith as well as the negative aspects found in religious fundamentalism and religious-based violence.

scholarly journals Nursing in the era of globalisation: challenges for the 21st century

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcione Leite da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Global Impacts ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Globalized World

The purpose of this paper was to reflect about issues related to the processes of globalization and the global impacts on health, pointing out some challenges for Nursing in the twenty-first century. In this sense, the author outlines the forms and trends of globalization in the contemporary world, and the drastic impacts on human health and environment. To respond to the challenges of the globalized world, some ways are indicated, among which, the strengthening of nursing discipline stands out, together with some guidelines for education, research and Nursing care, in a local and global scope.

A Twenty-First-Century World

Laura Nader ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 255-346
Author(s):  
Laura Nader
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Family Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Globalized World

This chapter reviews letters from the twenty-first century. It explains how the letters covered a scattered number of familiar issues, such as mindsets in science, arguments over Alternative Dispute Resolution mediation, and the need to regulate family law mediators. It also discusses a short letter from an eighty-five-year old Californian farmer, George Woegell, on the male proclivity to go to war. The chapter analyzes letters on war and violence, such as the United States' prolonged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It looks at other letters about the continued conflict in Israel and Palestine, jihadism, terrorism, anthropology and militarism, silencing, and the role of politics and its problems in a globalized world in search of “modernity.”

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