Luke Bretherton is Professor of Theological Ethics and Senior Fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, North Carolina. Before Duke, he was Reader in Theology and Politics at King's College London (2004¿12). His other books include Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (2006) and Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (2010), winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing. As well as academic journals and books he writes for the media on issues related to religion and politics. This book grows out of a three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project for which he was principal investigator (2008¿11).
Introduction
Part I: 1. The origins of organizing: an intellectual history
2. Faith and citizenship in a world city
3. Reimagining the secular: interfaith relations as a civic practice
4. An anatomy of organizing I: listening, analysis, and building power
5. An anatomy of organizing II: capacity, action, and representation
Part II: 6. Civil society as the body politic
7. Sovereignty and consociational democracy
8. Economy, debt, and citizenship
Conclusion.
