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Examines the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on contemporary world events, and the significant role of the church as dependent on how it, and its traditions and communities, is affected by for-profit global culture industries worldwide; since 1989, chiefly, Some focus on the advertising and marketing industries.

Intro -- The Church as Counterculture -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Practicing the Politics of Jesus -- 2. Always in the Shadow of the Empire -- 3. Salt and Leaven: Resistances to Empire in the Street-Smart Paleochurch -- 4. The Nonviolent Terrorist: In Defense of Christian Fantacism -- 5. Solomon's Porch: The Church as Sectarian Ghetto -- 6. Decisons That Inscribe Life's Patterns -- 7. Legion and the Believing Community: Discipleship in an Imerial Age -- 8. "There You Will See Him": Christianity beyond the Frontier Myth -- 9. "Blowing the Dynamite of the Church": Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist Perspective -- 10. Pledging Allegiance: Reflections on Discipleship and the Church after Rwanda -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y

People worldwide find themselves part of overlapping communities of identity and belonging--racial, political, cultural, sexual, ideological. Some identities, like brand loyalties, are chosen; some, like class identity, are imposed. As followers of Jesus Christ, those called to live in between the age that is and the age to come, Christians ask what it means to be part of the body of Christ, God's new creation from among the nations, in a world filled with other nations.'Who--and whose--are we?'There is no easy answer, no time at which Christians got it completely right. Yet such questions must be addressed, and the stakes are high. Matters of war and peace, exclusion and inclusion, who starves and who does not, the credibility of the gospel itself--all are caught up in the whirl of identities, allegiances imposed or refused, and questions about what'the church'might possibly mean in such circumstances. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars from five continents asks,'How can the church respect the diversity of its members--many nations, cultures, and communities--while maintaining a coherent witness to the kingdom of God that is not undermined by more parochial ideologies or priorities?'