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Summary
Author Biography
Laura M. Hartman is Assistant Professor of Religion at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: Consumption Matters | p. 3 |
Consumerism Distinguished from Consumption | p. 5 |
Consumption: Beyond Sociology | p. 9 |
Refining the Definition | p. 11 |
The Moral Import of Consumption | p. 16 |
Four Considerations | p. 21 |
Methods, Perspective, and Audience | p. 25 |
To Avoid Sin | p. 30 |
Consumption Practices of Francis, Woolman, and Sider | p. 33 |
Asceticism, Poverty, and Simplicity | p. 36 |
Complicity in Consumption | p. 42 |
The Economy of Avoiding Sin | p. 45 |
The Importance of Avoiding Sin in Consumption | p. 49 |
To Embrace Creation | p. 54 |
The Earth Is Fruitful and Blessings Abound | p. 55 |
Human Hungers Are Not Sinful | p. 59 |
We Should Consume with Gratitude, Savoring, and Sharing | p. 61 |
Wealth May Be Virtuous | p. 63 |
We Are God's Beloved Children | p. 66 |
Good Stewardship of Blessings | p. 70 |
Consumption and Creation | p. 81 |
To Love the Neighbor | p. 84 |
What Is Love? | p. 86 |
Love of Self | p. 89 |
Love of Close Others | p. 93 |
Love of Somewhat Distant Others | p. 96 |
Love of Place | p. 110 |
Love of Faraway Others | p. 114 |
Love of God | p. 123 |
Envisioning a Better Life for All Neighbors | p. 126 |
To Envision the Future | p. 128 |
Sabbath Keeping | p. 130 |
Who Observes the Sabbath? | p. 132 |
What Does Sabbath Keeping Entail? | p. 135 |
How Observing a Sabbath Affects Consumption | p. 141 |
Eucharist | p. 152 |
What It Means to Take the Eucharist | p. 153 |
What Makes the Eucharist Eschatological? | p. 159 |
What the Eucharist Teaches about Consumption | p. 160 |
Beyond Bread and Wine | p. 164 |
Sabbath, Eucharist, and Visions of the Future | p. 167 |
Conclusion: Considered Consumption | p. 169 |
Four Considerations | p. 170 |
Considerations Working Together: Three Contemporary Authors | p. 172 |
An Ethics of Discernment | p. 181 |
Some Examples: Transportation and Meat | p. 184 |
Consumerism Revisited | p. 192 |
Notes | p. 195 |
Index | p. 235 |
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