Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological WisdomRoger S. Gottlieb This sweeping new anthology shows how religion has joined with and learned from movements for social justice, peace, and ecological wisdom. Liberating Faith surveys the entire range of religious social activism: from liberation theology and feminist religion to ecotheology and peace activism. It includes theology, social critique, position papers, denominational statements, manifestos, rituals, prayers, biographical accounts, and journalistic descriptions of real world struggles, beginning with a survey of ethical teachings from traditional sources. Following sections deal with ''precursor'' voices before the 20th century, Gandhi''s exemplary vision, overviews of the connections between religion, society, and political movements, and impassioned accounts of particular issues. Containing voices from a multitude of traditions, national settings, and perspectives. Liberating Faith includes writings by Latin American liberation theologians and radical American religious activists, statements on social justice by the Pope and environmental morality by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch, religious critiques of collective and interpersonal violence, passionate denunciations of racism and quiet eloquence which demands that we all stand up for morality in dark times. Among the more than eighty authors are Thomas Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Abraham Heschel, Martin Luther King, Winona Laduke, Michael Lerner, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Judith Plaskow, Rosemary Ruether, and Vandana Shiva. An invaluable teaching resource and the definitive introduction to global religious social activism, this book offers a visionary alternative to both repressive fundamentalism and spiritless secularism. Pope and environmental morality by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch, religious critiques of collective and interpersonal violence, passionate denunciations of racism and quiet eloquence which demands that we all stand up for morality in dark times. Among the more than eighty authors are Thomas Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Abraham Heschel, Martin Luther King, Winona Laduke, Michael Lerner, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Judith Plaskow, Rosemary Ruether, and Vandana Shiva. An invaluable teaching resource and the definitive introduction to global religious social activism, this book offers a visionary alternative to both repressive fundamentalism and spiritless secularism. Pope and environmental morality by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch, religious critiques of collective and interpersonal violence, passionate denunciations of racism and quiet eloquence which demands that we all stand up for morality in dark times. Among the more than eighty authors are Thomas Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Abraham Heschel, Martin Luther King, Winona Laduke, Michael Lerner, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Judith Plaskow, Rosemary Ruether, and Vandana Shiva. An invaluable teaching resource and the definitive introduction to global religious social activism, this book offers a visionary alternative to both repressive fundamentalism and spiritless secularism. Pope and environmental morality by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch, religious critiques of collective and interpersonal violence, passionate denunciations of racism and quiet eloquence which demands that we all stand up for morality in dark times. Among the more than eighty authors are Thomas Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Abraham Heschel, Martin Luther King, Winona Laduke, Michael Lerner, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Judith Plaskow, Rosemary Ruether, and Vandana Shiva. An invaluable teaching resource and the definitive introduction to global religious social activism, this book offers a visionary alternative to both repressive fundamentalism and spiritless secularism. Winona Laduke, Michael Lerner, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Judith Plaskow, Rosemary Ruether, and Vandana Shiva. An invaluable teaching resource and the definitive introduction to global religious social activism, this book offers a visionary alternative to both repressive fundamentalism and spiritless secularism. |
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... Islam and Deep Ecology " 2 Nawal H. Ammar Nawal H. Ammar is associate dean of Kent State University . He has published widely in the areas of women's rights , Islam , Middle Eastern politics , and ecology . Here , he explores the ...
... Islam and Deep Ecology " 2 Nawal H. Ammar Nawal H. Ammar is associate dean of Kent State University . He has published widely in the areas of women's rights , Islam , Middle Eastern politics , and ecology . Here , he explores the ...
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... Islam is not an aesthetic religion : it does not view nature as sacred . In the Islamic vision , “ ( Hu ) man ( s ) are a distinct part of the universe and have a special position among the other parts of the universe . " Nature is seen ...
... Islam is not an aesthetic religion : it does not view nature as sacred . In the Islamic vision , “ ( Hu ) man ( s ) are a distinct part of the universe and have a special position among the other parts of the universe . " Nature is seen ...
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... Islam has in common with deep ecology its respect for nature and earth . Both Islam and deep ecology view humans as part of this creation and not superior to it . Beyond this commonality the Islamic vision of linking humans to nature ...
... Islam has in common with deep ecology its respect for nature and earth . Both Islam and deep ecology view humans as part of this creation and not superior to it . Beyond this commonality the Islamic vision of linking humans to nature ...
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Ethical Roots of Spiritual Social Activism | 1 |
Christianity | 10 |
Jainism | 17 |
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