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John Witte, Jr.

The Impact of Political Economy

Coeditor, The Impact of Political Economy on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2023) (with Piet Naude and Michael Welker)
 
Volume 10 of a 10 volume series on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies.
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Project Series Description (Canopy Forum article)
 

List of Series Volumes Reprinted

Description

I
n our late modern societies, a tension arises between an almost chaotic pluralism and relativism on the one hand and a "constructive plurality" on the other. The latter acknowledges the normative codes emanating from key social systems like law, religion, the family, education, the market, the media, the academy (sciences and humanities), health care, and defence and politics.

In this volume, a multi-disciplinary team of experts from Germany, Italy, Australia, the UK, the USA, and South Africa bring their conceptual, empirical and historical insights to bear in three broad sections: "The moral dimension of social systems"; "The interaction of religion, law and education with political systems"; and "The moral (mal)-formation evident in case studies on the global financial crisis and social media".


Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface to the Series – Michael Welker, John Witte Jr., and Piet J. Naudé
  • Introduction – Piet J. Naudé
 
Part One: Rethinking Ethics 
 
Amanda Gouws
Neoliberal Political Economy and Value Transmission: What We Can Learn from Feminist Care Ethics
 
Andreas Glaeser
Ethics’ Political Imperative: Moving Toward Better Institutions
 
Roshan Allpress
Philanthropic Formation at the Intersection of Mercantile and Religious Networks: The Thornton Family in Their Eighteenth-Century Contexts

Part Two: Integrating Social Systems 
 
Nicholas Aroney
Economics, Law, Education, and Religion: Contributions to the Composition of a Good Society
 
Sergio Belardinelli
Social Systems, Moral Individualism, and Education
 
Paul Oslington
Why Is the Conversation between Theologians and Economists So Difficult?
 
Part Three: Evaluating Liberal Capitalism
 
Rüdiger Bittner
Our Political Economy’s Moral Teaching
 
David McIlroy
The Devaluing of Virtue: The Global Financial Crisis of 2007–10 as a Test Case of the Effect of Moral Formation
 
 Jonathan Cole
Twitter: A Case-Study in the Character-Malformation Potential of Twenty-First-Century Digital Technology
 
Part Four: Navigating State Power
 
John Witte Jr.
Resisting Political Authority to Protect Faith and Morality: Enduring Lessons from the Lutheran Reformation
 
Nathan S. Chapman
Constitutional Rules and the Political Economy of Character Formation: Conditions on Government Aid to Religious Schools as a Case Study

  • Contributors
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