Towards a Politics of Communion

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Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times

By Dr Anna Rowlands

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Towards a Politics of Communion by Dr Anna Rowlands offers a comprehensive guide to Catholic Social Teaching (CST), exploring its history, key figures, and major themes. The book delves into the tradition of social encyclicals since 1891, examining how scripture, doctrine, and natural law inform communal living. Rowlands uniquely connects CST principles with issues such as political community, democracy, migration, and integral ecology. She also addresses the challenges CST faces within pluralist and post-secular societies, making this book both an incisive overview and a fresh contribution to contemporary political theology.
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This book is ideal for scholars, graduate students, and readers interested in religion, political theology, and contemporary social issues. It appeals to those seeking an informed and nuanced understanding of Catholic Social Teaching and its relevance in today's pluralistic societies.

Explores Catholic Social Teaching in terms of its background, context, and its main content.

Opens to a student, policy maker, business leader, social activist and Church audience the background to, context for, and content of Catholic Social Teaching.

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Winner of the Ratzinger Foundation Expanded Reason Award 2023

Towards a Politics of Communion by Dr Anna Rowlands offers a guide to the main time periods, key figures, documents and themes of thinking developed as Catholic Social Teaching (CST). A wealth of material has been produced by the Catholic Church during its long history which considers the implications of scripture, doctrine and natural law for the way these elements live together in community — most particularly in the tradition of social encyclicals dating from 1891.

Rowlands takes a fresh approach in weaving overviews of the central principles with the development of thinking on political community and democracy, migration, and integral ecology. She also considers the increasingly critical questions concerning the role of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context.

As such, this book offers both an incisive overview of this distinctive body of Catholic political theology and a new and challenging contribution to the debate about the transformative potential of CST in contemporary society.

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No one brings the worlds of social activism and the academy together with more energy, invention and style than Anna Rowlands. The Tablet highlights the book as a fluent and polyphonic introduction to the Catholic vision of the good life. The Church Times praises its lucidity, recommending it for a wide audience interested in political theology. The Scottish Journal of Theology notes the book as setting a new standard for scholarship on CST, valuing it as an indispensable resource for graduate studies and recognising Rowlands as a sophisticated and trustworthy guide.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780567242730

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 December 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK, and Chair of the UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice.