" " As a shared assessment, liberation theologies promote thoughtful questions into the normative usage of religious Scripture, convention and understanding in Christian theology. Liberation theologians stress that the leading theologies of the West have been utilized to support the conventional mandate of the time (Grant, "Black Theology" 320)
Their brand of oppression was a double edged sword, racism and sexism. Their experiences and desire for freedom and liberation is overlooked, making the black feminists feel that the black liberation theology can only gain legitimacy once it discards ALL forms of bias, which of course means race and gender (Hopkins, 30) During the earlier days, the Black Liberation Movement catered only to the men; women of color were discriminated in white and black churches
This is thought to be the connection in which God's disclosure is gotten and deciphered. However, can one perspective, or only that of the poor and the abused, be enough to shape the image of a theology? During the liberation struggle in the 1960s, the true and developed face of the black theology emerged, considering how important the experience of the bigger group's battle for freedom was (Jones, 57)
These definitions were acknowledged and accepted without any inquiry or question. So despite liberation, black women simply underwent a change of masters amidst the patriarchy-fueled ideologies of male control (Long, 37)
Moreover, racial oppression came forward as the main cause that had led to oppression and poverty within the U.S. (Phelps, 673)
From that perspective, corporations need to re-orient themselves with the duty they owe society, as Goldsmith (1994) argues. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs are effective forms of management that directly and indirectly impact the "social, environmental and economic environment in which" the corporation functions (Castka, Bamber, Sharp, 2005, p
By using an ethical foundation for a business model, corporations can actually gain substantial market share and public trust because they are viewed as being good for the environment and for communities (as well as delivering a good product). It is not necessary therefore to use accounting concepts like TBL, since there is plenty of evidence of corporations failing to live up to ethical practices losing market share to companies that practice them in real life (Ferrell, 2010)
CSR contrasts with TBL in the sense that the former is an activities-driven model based on putting people first and the latter is an accounting-driven model based on putting profits first. The TBL concept is essentially situated in the modern management maxim that "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it" (Norman, MacDonald, 2003, p
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Triple Bottom Line: Why Distributive Justice Matters More Than Accounting Tricks That multinational corporations have an ethical duty to be socially responsible has been made very clear by businessmen and social justice advocates like Sir James Goldsmith (Rose, 1994)
The question that remains is precisely how they are to execute that social responsibility. Some contend that a triple bottom line (TBL) concept is the way to measure whether a corporation is meeting its ethical obligations (by focusing on the "interrelated dimensions of profits, people, and the planet"), but TBL accounting is simply that -- accounting: it is not an ethical program that ensures social responsibility, only one that attempts to measure it (Slaper, Hall, 2011)