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Toto · 06-28-2012, 09:43 PM

Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: Quests, Scholarship and Ideology (or via: amazon.co.uk) by James G Crossley

Tom Verenna will be reviewing the book on his blog

From Amazon:

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'Modern biblical scholarship is made possible by assuming that the ancient biblical text is fundamentally shaped by the historical-social world out of which it emerged. In Jesus in the Age of Neo-Liberalism, James Crossley demonstrates that current scholarship is shaped by the world of American dominated neo-liberalism and consumer-based postmodernism. He is particularly successful in identifying what topics and mode of writing this discourse allows and, perhaps more importantly, what it excludes.' --Shawn J. Kelley, Daemen College, New York

'Reader beware! James Crossley is returning biblical scholarship to its roots in socially engaged and historically sophisticated cultural criticism. Here in the tradition of D. F. Strauss and Albert Schweitzer, Crossley s investigation of Jesus always sees double: ancient data haunted by a halo of contemporary ideological desire. Faithful to radical traditions of biblical research and critical theory alike, Crossley on this occasion does not spare the interpretive tendencies of that seemingly most benign and tolerant ideology of openness for our own time, neoliberalism. What is this neoliberal ideology which drives contemporary biblical scholarship to participate in some of the most rapacious and aggressive forms of contemporary global power? Look inside yourself, biblical scholar, it is almost certainly that which is driving your own work! Prepare to be provoked into new modes of thinking about the cultural life of the Bible today, as Crossley is one of the most important contemporary bearers of the radical legacy of biblical scholarship.' --Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Jesus Quests and Contexts

PART I: From Mont Pelerin to Eternity? Contextualising an Age of Neoliberalism
Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and Postmodernity
Chapter 3: Biblioblogging: Connected Scholarship
Chapter 4: ‘Not Made by Great Men’? The Quest for the Individual Christ
Chapter 5: ‘Never Trust a Hippy’: Finding a Liberal Jesus Where You Might Not Think

PART II: Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism
Chapter 6: A ‘fundamentally unreliable adoration’: 'Jewishness’ and the Multicultural Jesus
Chapter 7: The Jesus Who Wasn’t There? Conservative Christianity, Atheism and Other Religious Influences

PART III: Contradictions
Chapter 8: ‘Forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing!’ Other Problems, Extremes and the Social World of Jesus
Chapter 9: Red Tory Christ

Chapter 10: Conclusion

Toto · 06-28-2012, 10:41 PM

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The overall aim is simple enough: to establish the general case for the importance of the context of neoliberalism for understanding major emphases in contemporary scholarship.

More detail about neoliberalism, tolerance, liberalism, ideology, postmodernity, extremism, culture, Jesus, Judeans, Red Tories, multiculturalism, the Pope, Jesus the Great Man, consumerism, some deeply weird beliefs, business-scholars, intentionality, patronising views concerning Jews and Judaism, biblioblogging about disasters, evangelicals, eyewitnesses, conspiracy theorists, ‘mythicism’ and so on will come later. For now, clearing the ground…

stephan huller · 06-28-2012, 10:53 PM

I don't know who I dislike more - a brown noser or a deluded reactionary.

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stephan huller Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: seattle, wa Posts: 9,337	I don't know who I dislike more - a brown noser or a deluded reactionary.

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