Hope, Courage, and Resistance during Climate Change: Insights from African American Economic Cooperative Practices
Economic cooperative practices increase the ability of agents and communities to resist or curb ecologically damaging practices and to adapt to inevitable cultural and material transitions due to climate change. The history of African American economic cooperatives demonstrates how such efforts can...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2016]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-192 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America NCC Social ethics |
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| Summary: | Economic cooperative practices increase the ability of agents and communities to resist or curb ecologically damaging practices and to adapt to inevitable cultural and material transitions due to climate change. The history of African American economic cooperatives demonstrates how such efforts can build practical and leadership skills, transform local culture, and lay groundwork for wider collective action. Such practices fit Willis Jenkins's model of prophetic pragmatism insofar as they draw on inherited traditions and transform culture and us. Contemporary Christians and church communities can encourage economic cooperation as a form of resistance to ecological destruction and, in doing so, encourage the habits of humility, hope, and courage. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2016.0037 |