Transform your understanding of consumer culture with 'An Other Kingdom', a profound exploration by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight. This essential read, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc in 2016, delves into how our current beliefs in competition and scarcity lead to societal casualties. The authors argue for a shift from a fractured consumer market ideology to a thriving community focused on shared values and mutual support. With 144 pages of insightful content, this book encourages readers to discard the myth of customer satisfaction and embrace a neighborly covenant, advocating for a culture that prioritizes well-being, connection, and collective growth.

As you journey through the pages of 'An Other Kingdom', you will discover the importance of fostering relationships to create a healthier, more integrated society. This book charts a modern exodus from the control of consumerism towards a more fulfilling communal existence. Learn how you can participate in establishing a culture that counters poverty and violence, ensuring a prosperous future for all.

Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9781119194729. Year: 2016. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US). Pages: 144.

Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781119194729
Year: 2016
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 144


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Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.


We think the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be more agile, more lean, more schooled, more, more, more. Give it up. There is no such thing as customer satisfaction.


We need a new narrative, a shift in our thinking and speaking. An Other Kingdom takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where life is ours to create together.  This satisfying way depends upon a neighborly covenant?an agreement that we together, will better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a livelihood. The neighborly covenant has a different language than market-hype. It speaks instead in a sacred tongue.


Authors Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture, with its constellations of empire and control. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable?a culture in which the social order produces enough for all. They ask you to consider this other kingdom. To participate in this modern exodus towards a modern community. To awaken its beginnings are all around us. An Other Kingdom outlines this journey to construct a future outside th