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In the previous chapter, I deconstructed the neoliberal myth of progress that undergirds global capitalism by framing my religious critique around notions of crisis, redemption, and hope. This narrative of progress asserts a false hope, which is grounded in the promise of material abundance and well-being for all. However, this promise has fallen short. Critical theorists and womanists such as Benjamin, Zizek, and Baker-Fletcher remind one that if voices desire to disrupt structural inequities sponsored by global economy, such voices must unsettle what legitimates contemporary capitalist rationality: the myth of progress and the promise of material abundance in the future.
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Eric Fromm, To Have or To Be? (New York: Continuum Publishing, 1997), 63.
Keri Day, Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2012), 109.
Refer to Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Mining the Motherlode: Methods in Womanist Ethics (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2006). Floyd-Thomas describes self-love as a central tenet of womanist ethics that enables black women to embody radical subjectivity.
David Gouwens, Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 210.
Soren Kierkagaard, Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age, ed. and trans. Howard Hone and Edna Hong (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), 75.
C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 3.
Soren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 249.
Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong 2 volumes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), 168.
Katie Cannon, Black Womanist Ethics (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishing, 1988). Refer to Chapters 4 and 5 where Cannon talks about these virtues at length.
See Lisa Tessman, Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 23.
Melanie Harris, Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2010), 57.
Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf (London: Methuen Publishers, 1977), 87.
Monica Coleman, Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008), 16.
Please refer to a paper given at the 2007 American Academy of Religion conference by Kierkegaardian scholar David Gowens, “Kierkegaard on the Universally Religious and the Specifically Christian as Resources for Interreligious Conversation,” in Andrew J. Burgess, ed., Kierkegaard and Religious Pluralism: Papers of the AAR Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group, and the Soren Kierkegaard Society. AAR 2007 Annual Meeting, San Diego. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007, 83–104.
Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love: Some Christian Reflections in the Form of Discourses, trans. Howard and Edna Hong (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), 237.
A number of womanist texts explore moral imagination in relation to radically critiquing the established oppressive order. Texts such as Delores Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993);
Marcia Riggs, Awake, Arise, and Act: A Womanist Call for Black Liberation (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1994); and
Emilie Townes, Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African-American Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care (New York: Continuum Publishing, 2001); among others.
Soren Kierkegaard, Practice in Christianity, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 219.
Soren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Attack upon “Christendom” 1854–1855, trans. Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944), 282–283.
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Day, K. (2016). Resisting the Acquiring Mode. In: Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism. Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56943-1_3
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