Is All Protest Work Morally Equal?

Often used as a tool for raising public awareness about issues that are deemed morally dubious, protests have a long and storied tradition in the history of social change in the United States. The recent ubiquity of protesting and counter-protesting in American public life has raised to the problem...

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1. VerfasserIn: Peters, Rebecca Todd 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2022
In: Political theology
Jahr: 2022, Band: 23, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 148-154
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Protest / Christliche Sozialethik
IxTheo Notationen:CG Christentum und Politik
NCC Sozialethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Lived Religion
B liberation theologies
B Protest
B Christian social ethics
B Black Lives Matter
B protest movements
B Feminist ethics
B Abortion
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Zusammenfassung:Often used as a tool for raising public awareness about issues that are deemed morally dubious, protests have a long and storied tradition in the history of social change in the United States. The recent ubiquity of protesting and counter-protesting in American public life has raised to the problem of false equivalency, leaving bystanders sometimes confused about how to evaluate the respective “protest” movements. In this piece, I briefly root the history and moral meaning of protest work in the Protestant Reformation and outline a set of questions that can serve as criteria for evaluating whether the moral work of contemporary protest movements is morally efficacious or morally destructive.
ISSN:1743-1719
Enthält:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1899702