About the Book

Rebecca Todd Peters provides a helpful overview of the complicated contemporary debates about globalization. By engaging in a careful reading of the cacophony of views on globalization, she unearths four identifiable positions within these debates, each offering a different moral vision of the world. As she observes, policy debates about the direction that globalization should move are morally serious debates about what values humanity will choose as most significant in the post-Cold War world. In Search of the Good Life argues that our moral task is to ensure that globalization proceeds in ways that honor creation and life and that any theory of globalization ought to be grounded in values that emphasize a democratized understanding of power, encourage care for the planet, and promote people's social well-being. In Search of the Good Life is the winner of the 2003 Trinity Prize, awarded annually to a writer or scholar in the early stages of their career. Rebecca Todd Peter's book was selected as the best scholarly, cross-disciplinary work to present a new perspective on biblical, cultural, ethical, theological, or religious issues. She won the prize of $10,000, plus a contract for publication. The 2004 Trinity Prize will be announced at the meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, Texas, in November.

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 228 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Continuum (Oct. 31st, 2004)

ISBN-10: 0826416209

ISBN-13: 9780826416209

Dimensions: 6.22 x 9.38 x 0.94 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.04 lbs

• Categories: Christian Ethics