Organizing Visions: Social Ethics and Broad-Based Solidarity Activism - (Ethics and Intersectionality) (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

ETHICS AND INTERSECTIONALITY SERIES

Organizing Visions is a collection of essays featuring premier scholars and practitioners engaging in critical and constructive social ethical reflection on a range of organizing experiences. Although the chapters are interdisciplinary in method and consider different subjects, collectively, they reflect on the current state of the field of Christian social ethics and its rich relation to organizing movements. The book makes the case that Christian social ethics emerged out of and in conversation with major social movements in U.S. history and today is defined by a commitment to studying these movements. As such, Christian social ethics is, by nature, intersectional, interdisciplinary, and committed to social justice organizing.

About the Author

Gary Dorrien teaches social ethics, theology, and philosophy of religion as the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. Dorrien is the author of 21 books and more than 300 articles that range across the fields of social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and political theory, religious history, cultural criticism, and intellectual history. The third and concluding volume of Dorrien's history of the Black social gospel tradition will be published by Yale University Press in 2023 under the title A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK. Dorrien is currently completing a single-volume history of American theological liberalism titled The Spirit of American Liberal Theology.

Charlene Sinclair has been a community organizer for over 20 years, working with national and local organizations to develop comprehensive grassroots organizing and political strategies as well as policy and power analysis. Charlene draws on this experience in her current role as lead organizer for what is being called one of the largest national coalition of grassroots organizations led by directly impacted leaders working to end mass incarceration and criminalization. Charlene received her PhD in Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Aaron Stauffer is the Associate Director of Online Learning and the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School. His scholarly and organizing work lies at the intersection of the academy, the Christian church, and community organizing. An ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the PC(USA), Aaron most recently was the Executive Director and then Special Advisor of Religions for Peace USA, where he helped launch a national anti-Islamophobia program based in the southeast, along with organizing national senior religious leaders on issues of common concern such as mass incarceration, immigration, and climate change.