Kairos, crisis, and global apartheid : the challenge to prophetic resistance /
The 1985 Kairos Document came as a call to discern and rise up against the devastating crises of the South African apartheid. Thirty years later, Christians and faith communities across the world are facing a different, more global, sort of apartheid. This apartheid is caused and characterized by gr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Basingstoke] :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015
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| Series: | Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The 1985 Kairos Document came as a call to discern and rise up against the devastating crises of the South African apartheid. Thirty years later, Christians and faith communities across the world are facing a different, more global, sort of apartheid. This apartheid is caused and characterized by growing social and economic inequalities, environmental devastation, and degradation of human dignity on a global scale. This book is a call to note the contours of these crises and respond with faithful, prophetic resistance for the sake of the common good. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137495310 1137495316 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
