Ratsimbazafy, Fulgence (2011) Impact of Globalization on Madagascar: A Critical Analysis and a Christian Response Based on the Perspective of the Theology of Reconstruction. PhD thesis, Santa Clara University Berkeley, California.
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Abstract
Why is the study of the impact of globalization on Madagascar important? I contend in this project that Madagascar as a place, in the philosophical and existential sense, cannot escape from the tsunami of globalization. Globalization is an historical reality and a process of relationships that affects both positively and negatively all walks of life of the Malagasy people. My argument builds on the words of the philosopher Albert Borgmann: “We should neither try to demolish [globalization] nor run away from it. We can restrain it and must redeem it.” To do that, I call for a more human and holistic vision to globalization. By this I mean a life-giving, life-sustaining, lifeenhancing, and all-embracing globalization. I argue that the African Theology of Reconstruction led by JNK Mugambi, Kä Mana, and Charles Villa-Vicencio can provide abundant resources to help the Malagasy society with better discernment, judgment, and decisions that will allow them to act humanly, wisely, and responsibly to the challenges of globalization. In other words, the Theology of Reconstruction offers distinctive and rich possibilities, notably interdisciplinary, ecumenical and interreligious collaborations; retrieval and rediscovery of African [Malagasy] cultural and religious heritages; a Christology of abundant life; an ethics of responsibility and solidarity; existential and cosmological theological anthropology; and a quest for an integrative, disciplined and responsible spirituality. All of these can help orient, regulate, and correct a response to globalization and its challenges. Together, they provide tools that are informative, formative, transformative, and creative.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Divisions: | Africana Afro-Christiana Jesuitica |
| Depositing User: | Tim Khabala |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2017 13:16 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2017 13:16 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/2139 |
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