Addressing the captivity of faith

I'm going to be a bit presumptuous, so forgive me. But it seems to me that we in the churches have a problem. That claim in itself is nothing new, but my particular emphasis is this: that our 'western presuppositions' are so focused on the individual, that we find our faith held captive. This, too, is not a new claim - it has been said before that the individual's faith-opinion has become dangerously privatised, shaving off its awkwardly public implications, especially the need to live our faith confidently in public - but I particularly observe this problem as being a problem with our political lives. People are happy with practisiong their faith as indidivuals who are basically called to be nice, tolerant, peaceful, respectful - values which happen also to reflect the values of western secularism! - and to gather together with like-minded practitioners for uncritical "fellowship", to affirm our faith in the face of a suspicious world. But any talk of faith as a social enterprise, something which exists between people - as well as privatised within an individual's mind and life - or as something which addresses the dominant social structures and assumptions and norms of our everyday world, is crazy-talk which people find hard to hear. And it's not that people won't "apply" the prophetic traditions of justice to specific situations - people will accept that faith "has political implications"; rather, it is a non-acceptance of faith's inherently political nature. How, then, are we to speak honestly, and to live openly, with regards to faith as a special kind of social imagining, a "way of being" which sees, and hears, and celebrates, and criticises the relationships of the world in a particular light? How are we to address the captivity of faith, if we are so used to its being captive that we do not even see it? Orwell says (and I arrogantly use his quote here): "Unless they become conscious they can never rebel, but until after they have rebelled they can never become conscious." This, then, is the point of discipleship - action and reflection together; but if people don't want it, because it sounds too alien to our western lives, what are we to do? How can we set faith free?