Devin Singh
I am an Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College.
My work examines the intersections of religious thought with political and economic spheres in the West and in sites of colonial encounter. I research and teach on religion and politics, religion and economics, political theologies, as well as key figures and movements within the history of Christian thought, philosophy of religion, and ethics. I also focus on topics such as critical social theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, postcolonial thought, and social and business innovation and practice.
My first book, Divine Currency: Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford, 2018), contributes to a genealogy of monetary economy by considering the theological dimension. I explore how early Christian thought made use of economic concepts and monetary practices to develop key doctrinal ideas such as redemption and divine governance, and how this close relationship has offered theological legitimation to the economy’s development.
For more information visit www.devinsingh.com or https://religion.dartmouth.edu/people/devin-singh
Address: Department of Religion
Thornton Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
My work examines the intersections of religious thought with political and economic spheres in the West and in sites of colonial encounter. I research and teach on religion and politics, religion and economics, political theologies, as well as key figures and movements within the history of Christian thought, philosophy of religion, and ethics. I also focus on topics such as critical social theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, postcolonial thought, and social and business innovation and practice.
My first book, Divine Currency: Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford, 2018), contributes to a genealogy of monetary economy by considering the theological dimension. I explore how early Christian thought made use of economic concepts and monetary practices to develop key doctrinal ideas such as redemption and divine governance, and how this close relationship has offered theological legitimation to the economy’s development.
For more information visit www.devinsingh.com or https://religion.dartmouth.edu/people/devin-singh
Address: Department of Religion
Thornton Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
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Reimagining Leadership on the Commons includes leadership approaches derived from a complex, adaptive, open, whole systems perspective and a more relational, distributed, and collaborative paradigm that recognizes that rather than being individualist self-maximizers, people prefer to work together to share benefits and found a society based on ethical behavior, equality, and justice.
This is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.
The chapter proposes that obligated leadership is leadership that recognizes its position of mutuality and reciprocity with those led, and takes as a central task the construction of caring contexts for work, supported by transparency and trust. This approach can resist some of the problematic tendencies shaping work and leader- ship today that continue to draw on the legacy of debt in their operations. The author suggests that this approach may address some of the ethical concerns and moral dimensions of labor, which have been fraught with historical and cultural significance.
Reimagining Leadership on the Commons includes leadership approaches derived from a complex, adaptive, open, whole systems perspective and a more relational, distributed, and collaborative paradigm that recognizes that rather than being individualist self-maximizers, people prefer to work together to share benefits and found a society based on ethical behavior, equality, and justice.
This is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.
The chapter proposes that obligated leadership is leadership that recognizes its position of mutuality and reciprocity with those led, and takes as a central task the construction of caring contexts for work, supported by transparency and trust. This approach can resist some of the problematic tendencies shaping work and leader- ship today that continue to draw on the legacy of debt in their operations. The author suggests that this approach may address some of the ethical concerns and moral dimensions of labor, which have been fraught with historical and cultural significance.
useful in shedding light on their respective theoretical systems and agendas. It is also worthwhile in opening up a political-theological analysis of a critical historical juncture in European thought and society signaled, if only in shorthand, by the Weimar period. My aim is not a simple exercise in comparative and contrastive analysis, however. Nor is it merely a historical retrieval of two Weimar era theoretical giants. My interest is in examining and problematizing the category of the theological-political itself
such as historical materialism, phenomenology, and existentialism. I will explain some of the reasons for this divergence in what follows, for they are in fact not ancillary to the direction liberation theology has taken in explicating its unique and extremely influential vision for the ways and modes of knowing within theology. Indeed, due to a set of core convictions about how and where knowledge and wisdom are to be found, liberation
theology has rarely drawn upon the traditions that characterize the analytical- philosophical explorations of epistemology that dominate the Anglo-American context.
IN RELIGION AND THE Rise of Capitalism, Ben Friedman provides an accessible and engaging story of how certain key concepts in modern economic thought, such as the market mechanism, competition, and comparative advantage, were shaped in part by the ferment in religious thought initiated by the Protestant Reformation. He argues for both explicit and direct, as well as implicit and residual, links between doctrinal debates about divine providence, human sinfulness, or the possibilities of social progress, and these new economic ideas. Friedman’s investigation has two center points: one is the thought and context of Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nations (1776) remains a touchstone for the field of economics; the other is the so-called clerical economists of nineteenth-century America, who combined their theological convictions with visions of manifest destiny and economic growth that shaped the trajectory of this nation.
Read the rest online at the Syndicate Theology site!
https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/beyond-secular-order/