After Empire

A creative meditation on politics, engagement, and spirituality, Welch's latest work connects the personal to the political and the ethical to the historical stream in which we all live.

Sharon D. Welch is Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

preface pax americana, pax humana

ix

Imperialism and Its Alternatives

ix

Seeing the World through the Eyes of Others

xiv

Our Peace Mandate

xvi

chapter 1 memory

1

(11)

Generations

1

(3)

Activism

4

(3)

Colonial Legacies

7

(5)

chapter 2 laughter

12

(21)

An Ironic Spirituality

14

(4)

The Courage of Living

18

(4)

An Alchemy of Desire

22

(2)

Wonder and Suffering

24

(3)

Memory and Reciprocity

27

(3)

"Return to Laughter"

30

(3)

chapter 3 virtuosity

33

(39)

A New Social Contract

38

(7)

Elements of a Communal Ethic

45

(11)

Wisdom and the Sacred

56

(10)

Contact, Conquest, Identity

66

(6)

chapter 4 respect

72

(33)

Atrocity and Evasion

75

(23)

Culpability and Accountability

98

(7)

chapter 5 ceremony

105

(27)

Transforming Democracy

106

(2)

Politics without Polemic

108

(2)

Coalition

110

(4)

Democracy as Ceremony

114

(2)

Practices of Inclusive Democracy

116

(3)

Trickster Politics

119

(3)

Limitations of the Social Contract

122

(4)

Power and Desire

126

(2)

A Collective, Historical Social Contract

128

(4)

chapter 6 audacity

132

(27)

Engaged Buddhism

133

(2)

Examples of Engaged Buddhism

135

(4)

Compassion

139

(2)

Dharma Practice and Social Action

141

(2)

Mindfulness

143

(3)

Skillful Means

146

(2)

Beyond Us vs. Them

148

(4)

A Buddhist Ethos of Social Engagement

152

(7)

chapter 7 risk

159

(26)

Responses to the Threat of War

160

(7)

The Risks of International Cooperation

167

(5)

The Folly of Empire

172

(7)

Cooperative Power

179

(6)

acknowledgments

185

(2)

notes

187

(42)

index

229

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