This course seeks to probe the internal debates and contemporary promise of major social movements for the marginalized and dispossessed. We will first survey Aristotelian, biblical, classical liberal, Marxist, and Rawlsian formulations of justice. We then read some foundational texts redressing injustices based on class, race, gender, sexuality, education, disability, indigeneity, and environmental placement. Finally, we examine three prominent religious voices for social justice: the Levellers, Ranters, and Diggers for radical egalitarianism; the Black social gospel for racial equality; and Catholic Worker movement for labor rights. (Cluster 1&2)

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