Chapter 1. No Rising Tide: Religion, Economics, and Empire
No Rising Tide • Religion and Economics • Economics with the Soul of a Church • Market Fundamentalism • Religion, Economics, and Empire • Dead Ends and Alternatives
Chapter 2. The Logic of Downturn: Class Matters in Religion and Economics
Downturn as the Rule • Class Matters in Economics and Religion • Growing Inequality: Some Numbers • Religion, Economics, and Class • The Logic of Downturn and the Future of Religion
Chapter 3. God and the Free-Market Economy
What Gives Us Hope • Invisible Hands • Transcendence of the Market • Contemporary Consequences • “Idealism” • What Is Ultimate? Who Is God?
Chapter 4. Consuming Desire vs. Resisting Desire
That to Which Your Heart Clings • Is Consumerism Really the Problem? • The Produced Nature of Desire • Religion, Labor, and Resisting Desire • To Each According to Their Need
Chapter 5. Rethinking God and the World
Implicit and Explicit Theology: Beyond Ethics • Religion and Economics, Upside Down • Justice in Economics and Religion • Religion, Freedom, and Private Property • Gaining New Hope
Conclusion. The Turning of the Tide: Theology, Religion, and Economics
Alternatives • The Common Good • Constructive Critical Theology and Economics