New Directions in Protestant Social Ethics

Organizing Muslim Virtue: Community Organizing, Comparative Religious Ethics, and the South African Muslim Struggle Against Apartheid

“…The Call thus serves as an Islamic example of BBCO as well as a case study of the ethical formation of non-elite moral agents. In this way, it not only adds to the growing literature on 1 For discussions of these trends in religious ethics and political theology, see Lloyd 2014 andDumler-Winckler 2019. 2 By "democratic solidarity," I intend a discursive form of democratic citizenship characterized by a sense of interdependence and conception of justice inclusive of all members of a particular political community, in this case South Africa. Rather than conceiving social bonds as being natural or innate, the political concept of "solidarity" connotes social bonds and identities which have been created and cultivated around shared practices and norms of collective justice; that is, a unity based not on sameness but on finding commonality in difference.…”