MORAL COMMODITIES AND THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM.

This essay explores an increasingly popular genre of organized group travel in white mainline and emerging evangelical US Christianity I call "journeys to the margins": trips centered on learning from marginalized persons for the traveler's ethical formation. Drawing on ethnographic research with on...

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Published in:Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 642 - 664
Main Author: Williams, Sara A.
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2020
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