{"product_id":"opting-for-the-margins","title":"Opting for the Margins","description":"\u003cp\u003eIdeas like the \"preferential option for the poor\"-arguing that people marginalized by the economy have a claim to \"special consideration\"-have been among  the most significant insights in twentieth-century Christian theology.  Arising out of various theologies of liberation, options for the poor and for people at the margins of society have provided major new impulses for biblical studies, systematic theology, church history, ecclesial practice, and the academic\n\u003cbr\u003estudy of religion. Opting for the margins continues to be an important issue at a time when the gap between rich and poor is growing at an alarming rate both in the United States and in many other parts\n\u003cbr\u003eof the world, and when other gaps (based, for example, on differences in gender or race) continue to linger. Recently, however, options for the margins have been challenged by postmodern shifts in intellectual, social, political, and economic realities that often replace preferential options with other emphases, such as general concerns for pluralism, otherness, and difference. Options for the margins are therefore (at best) reduced to the special interests of certain minority\n\u003cbr\u003egroups, or (at worst) rejected as antiquated and irrelevant for the twenty-first century. The essays in this volume show how some forms of postmodern thought and theology can mask patterns of\n\u003cbr\u003eoppression and provide an excuse for deafness to voices from the margins. The authors, writing from a wide variety of national, ethnic, and theological perspectives, seek to revive the preferential option for the poor for the postmodern world, showing how options for the margins can engage postmodernity in new ways and break new ground in religious, theological, and ethical, as well as social, political, and economic thinking. The essays connect philosophical and theological arguments to the\n\u003cbr\u003econcrete realities of the postmodern world and to uncover new sources of energy in the life and death struggles of people across the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059399708910,"sku":"9780195161199","price":162.34,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195161199.jpg?v=1736498504","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/opting-for-the-margins","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}