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Religion, temporality and desire -- Destiny and desire: an ontology of human flourishing -- Temporality and desire -- Economy and destiny: a theory of agonistic communalism -- Pursuit of excellence and economic development -- Naija-dialectics: theory and methodology.

Part 1: Ontology, Subject in General: A Theory of Cracks -- Sickness unto Excess -- Saint Paul's Notion of Split Subjectivity -- The Split Economy -- Part II: Particular Subject: Logic of the World of Finance -- The Fantasy of Harmony -- The Ethical Form of Finance -- Part III: Singular-Plural Subjects: Deactivation of the Capitalist Future -- Abundance, Scarcity, and Pluralism: A New Direction for Economic Theology

Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ethical Methodology: Between Public Theology and Public Policy -- Chapter 2: Jeffrey Stout's Theory of Public Reason -- Chapter 3: Max Stackhouse: Globalization and Theology of History -- Chapter 4: Emergence and "Science of Ethos": Toward a Tillichian Ethical Framework -- Chapter 5: The Evasion of Ethics: Peter Paris Feels the Spirituals -- Chapter 6: Literature and Ethics: Learning from Martha Nussbaum -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Ethics of Methodology -- Bibliography.

This book is a bold attempt to reconceptualize excellence. It is no longer the virtue of doing something well or the mean of two extremes, but a clearing which allows humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles. The concept of excellence is emancipated from the excessive concern with order and good citizenry to become a libratory principle for interrogating all social institutions in the name of a better future

Modeling money on God -- Money and theology : a review and a direction -- Money and society : socioeconomic interpretations -- Money as a social relation -- Discerning distortions in monetary relations -- Money and empire -- A trinitarian model of the golbal monetary system -- Payoff for poor countries

In Kalabari there is a remarkable pervasiveness of tripartite schemes. This was not the situation centuries ago, and it is at variance with the baseline culture in the Niger Delta. In the past, and still among other Ijo communities, number three and odd numbers in general were associated with men; and even numbers and four in particular were associated with women. This paper investigates why the number-symbolism changed and "feminine" numbers disappeared from the traditional religious cosmology. Our analysis suggests that the transformation of Kalabari society from fishing village to trading state altered the gender balance in favor of men. With their newly found dominance in long-distance trade, which relied on violence for success, the reproduction of social relationships was structured in various ways to produce and maintain the worldview that what was masculine and strong was good for the governance of society. The prominence of number three in Kalabari social relations is, therefore, an "archaeological" artifact of historic transformation of gender relations.