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Introduction Introduction
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Radical Responses to Socio-Economic Injustice Radical Responses to Socio-Economic Injustice
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Radical Responses to Socio-Economic Injustice Radical Responses to Socio-Economic Injustice
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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32 Religion and Socio-Economic Injustice
Get accessMehmet Ciftci is the Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Centre, Oxford. He holds a DPhil in political theology from the University of Oxford.
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Published:23 January 2024
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Abstract
This chapter analyses the two ways by which some Christians and Muslims have faced socio-economic injustice. First, it compares Ali Shariati and Latin American liberation theologians. Both responded to injustice by distancing themselves from the received understandings of their traditions. They were innovative in appealing directly to foundational texts and figures (e.g. Jesus and the early Christians as described in the New Testament, Muhammad and his companions according to the Quran), circumventing more traditional interpretations and finding warrant in these texts and figures to ally themselves with contemporary political movements for solidarity, liberation, and social justice. Their complicated engagement with Marxism is then discussed. The second part of the chapter compares Umar Chapra, Muhammad Siddiqi, and Catholic social teaching as examples of how other Muslims and Christians have sought to recover from more ‘orthodox’ conceptions of their traditions the resources to respond to socio-economic injustice, such as usury, without becoming co-opted by the assumptions and concepts of Marxism or secular liberalism.
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