The Ethics of Doing Nothing: Rest, Rituals, officiel and the Modern World NEUF

Product Name: The Ethics of Doing Nothing: Rest, Rituals, officiel and the Modern World NEUF
EAN：9781626985025 officiel UPC：9781626985025 ISBN：9781626985025 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 200 pages
This book explores the theological and moral significance of practices once familiar to many Christians and Jews, such as Sabbath, vigil-keeping, Shmita (the sabbatical year for the land), and fiesta in relation to the twenty-first century economy. Blosser draws primarily on the Christian theologian, Jurgen Moltmann, and the prominent rabbi and religious thinker, Abraham Joshua Heschel in making the argument that humanitys obsession with material production has led to three interrelated evils: the exploitation of workers, status anxiety among the middle and upper-classes, and climate change. Blossers proposed solution includes returning to "rituals of inoperativity" that will help us "change our understanding of what it means to be human.".