Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part One: Cultured Despair and the Death of the Moral Imagination

The Ethic of Control

Narratives of Healing and Transformation

Memory and Accountability

Part Two: An Ethic of Risk

A Heritage of Persistence, Imagination, and Solidarity

The Healing Power of Love

Part Three: A Theology for the Bearers of Dangerous Memory

The Ideology of Cultured Despair

An Ethic of Solidarity and Difference

A Theology of Resistance and Hope

Notes

Index

About the Author

Sharon D. Welch is the new Provost of Meadville Lombard Theological School, Chicago. For many years she was Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is author of After Empire (2004, 978-0-8006-2986-1) and A Feminist Ethic of Risk (2d ed. 2000, 978-0-8006-3185-7).