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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE 2008 EDITION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. With God on Our Side: Faiths in Conflict -- CHAPTER ONE. "I'm on My Way, Praise God": Mrs. Hamer's Fight for Freedom -- CHAPTER TWO. High Priest of the Anti-Civil Rights Movement: The Calling of Sam Bowers -- CHAPTER THREE. Douglas Hudgins: Theologian of the Closed Society -- CHAPTER FOUR. Inside Agitator: Ed King's Church Visits -- CHAPTER FIVE. Cleveland Sellers and the River of No Return -- CONCLUSION. Clearburning: Fragments of a Reconciling Faith -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INTERVIEWS -- INDEX

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction : a consilience of cooperation -- The public relations of evolution -- Evolutionary biology, public relations, and cooperation -- Introduction to Section II : Evolutionary biology, neuroscience -- And cooperation -- Re-envisioning Charles Darwin -- Peter Kropotkin and mutual aid -- Dawkins, Gould, and Wilson : the modern debate -- The evolution of game theory -- Philosophy, public relations, and cooperation -- Introduction to Section III : Philosophical materialism -- Cooperation, and justice -- David Hume and the origins of justice -- John Rawls and justice as fairness -- Rhetoric, public relations, and cooperation -- Introduction to Section IV : Persuasion and cooperation -- Isocrates, moderation, and justice -- Isocrates' legacy: the Roman rhetoricians and beyond -- Conclusions -- Summaries and strategies -- References -- Index

Modern approaches to public relations cluster into three camps along a continuum: conflict-oriented egoism, e.g. forms of contingency theory that focus almost exclusively on the wellbeing of an entity; redressed egoism, e.g. subsidies to redress PR's egoistic nature; and forms of self-interested cooperation, e.g. fully functioning society theory. Public Relations, Cooperation, and Justice draws upon interdisciplinary research from evolutionary biology, philosophy, and rhetoric to establish that relationships built on cooperation and justice are more productive than those built on conflict and egoistic competition. Just as important, this innovative book shuns normative, utopian appeals, offering instead only empirical, materialistic evidence for its conclusions. This is a powerful, multidisciplinary, and well-documented analysis, including specific strategies for the enactment of PR as a quest for cooperation and justice, which aligns the discipline of public relations with basic human nature. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of public relations and communication ethics.

In Wayward Christian Soldiers, leading evangelical theologian Charles Marsh offers a powerful indictment of the political activism of evangelical Christian leaders and churches in the United States. Over the past several years, Marsh observes, American evangelicals have achieved more political power than at any time in their history, but the most prominent voices in American evangelicalism have arrogantly redefined Christianity on the basis of partisan politics rather than scripture and tradition.

In 1927, French author André Maurois published The Next Chapter: The War against the Moon, a "fantasy on the coming power of the press." Unlike seminal dystopian works such as We, Brave New World, and 1984 in which governments control the news media, War against the Moon presents a future in which news media control the world's governments. Unevaluated heretofore by journalism historians, War against the Moon reflects post-World War I concerns regarding propaganda, the malleability of public opinion, media consolidation, the power of press barons, and the drift of news toward sensationalism.