DIV 6848. Theology, Economics, and Labor with Dr. Joerg Rieger

This course is designed to engage students in explorations of how the growing disparities between those who have to work for a living (the 99 percent) and those whose wealth and power shape us all the way to the core in religion, politics, and economics, and what viable alternatives might look like. … [Read More]

This course, along with others, contributes to the Religion and Economic Justice Concentration at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

DIV 6643. Materialist Biblical Criticism with Dr. Fernando Segovia

The course deals with the juncture between economic studies and Biblical criticism, both with regard to the texts and contexts of early Christianity and the interpretations/interpreters of such texts and contexts in modernity and postmodernity; the course will consider a study of political economy, approaches to the political economy of the Roman Empire, and the trajectory of materialist criticism. … [Read More]

This course, along with others, contributes to the Religion and Economic Justice Concentration at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

DIV 7031. Race and Class: Cultivating Radical Care with Dr. Bruce Rogers-Vaughn

The course’s perspective is determined by the pain arising from concrete ways people experience themselves as raced and classed, and the peculiar conditions under which these experiences are entwined with and amplify one another. Investigating how racism and class exploitation are interwoven under the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism, the course moves to imagine the care this entanglement demands as “radical care.” [Read More]

This course, along with others, contributes to the Religion and Economic Justice Concentration at Vanderbilt Divinity School.