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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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Jahr: 2022, Band: 23, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 148-154 |
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Protest
/ Christliche Sozialethik
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IxTheo Notationen: | CG Christentum und Politik NCC Sozialethik |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1899702 |