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Sharon Welch's new book, Sweet Dreams in America: Making Ethics and Spirituality Work, is a brave book.. <br>-Janet Jakobsen, Journal of the American Academy of Religion <br> Welch utilizes a whole array of sources to create an ethic stability but is open ended.... <br>- Theological Studies <br> In this wise and compassionate text, Welch blends a primer on multicultural education with a strong and yet constructive internal critique of feminism, accomplished through a sustained dialogue with jazz and the blues. This is ahighly original project, finely conceived, gracefully executed, and stamped with the seal of extensive personal experience in social activism. With this book, Welch further hones an already distinctive feminist sensibility and emerges as a cultural critic of singular importance. <br>-Paul Lakeland, Fairfield University <br> Welch challenges educators and cultural workers to rethink the foundations of moral action in order to foster new models of social change that will lead to social justice. Sweet Dreamsis a lyrical and moving account of the pressing philosophical, moral, and political issues now confronting us. Grounded in an affirmation of life and a rejection of cynical reason, Sweet Dreams in America is a powerful story of hope. <br>-Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles and author of Revolutionary Multiculturalism <br> Drawing on jazz as a primary resource, Welch provides a constructive model for an activist, spiritually informed ethics in a post modern, pluralistic and multicultural world. An ethics without virtue, a spirituality without God, Sweet Dreams in America serves up a refreshing alternative to typical feminist and leftistresponses to post modern critique. A delight to read, filled with hope, a performance in its own right, the book is a must-read for religious and political activists on the left, for scholars and students of theology, theological ethics, and feminist studies, and for jazz-lovers everywhere. <br>-Paula Cooey, Trinity University <br>

Sharon Welch's new book, Sweet Dreams in America: Making Ethics and Spirituality Work, is a brave book.. -Janet Jakobsen, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Welch utilizes a whole array of sources to create an ethic stability but is open ended.... - Theological Studies In this wise and compassionate text, Welch blends a primer on multicultural education with a strong and yet constructive internal critique of feminism, accomplished through a sustained dialogue with jazz and the blues. This is ahighly original project, finely conceived, gracefully executed, and stamped with the seal of extensive personal experience in social activism. With this book, Welch further hones an already distinctive feminist sensibility and emerges as a cultural critic of singular importance. -Paul Lakeland, Fairfield University Welch challenges educators and cultural workers to rethink the foundations of moral action in order to foster new models of social change that will lead to social justice. Sweet Dreamsis a lyrical and moving account of the pressing philosophical, moral, and political issues now confronting us. Grounded in an affirmation of life and a rejection of cynical reason, Sweet Dreams in America is a powerful story of hope. -Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles and author of Revolutionary Multiculturalism Drawing on jazz as a primary resource, Welch provides a constructive model for an activist, spiritually informed ethics in a post modern, pluralistic and multicultural world. An ethics without virtue, a spirituality without God, Sweet Dreams in America serves up a refreshing alternative to typical feminist and leftistresponses to post modern critique. A delight to read, filled with hope, a performance in its own right, the book is a must-read for religious and political activists on the left, for scholars and students of theology, theological ethics, and feminist studies, and for jazz-lovers everywhere. -Paula Cooey, Trinity University

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Sharon D. Welch is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Women's Studies University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of A Feminist Ethicof Risk (1990) and Communities of Resistance andSolidarity (1985.

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