Liberating Faith Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom

, by Gottlieb, Roger S.; Ackerman, Diane; Ammar, Nawal H.; Appleby, Scott; Ateek, Naim Stifan; Barlow, Rich; Berrigan, Daniel; Berry, Thomas; Berryman, Philip; Bourdeaux, Michael; Boyd, Stephen B.; Chicago, Judy; Clifford, Anne M.; Cone, James H.; Cox, Harvey;

Write a Review

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9780742525344 | 0742525341
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/19/2003

Buy Used

Usually Ships in 2-4 Business Days

$112.90

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.

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

Introduction

xvii

Part I. Tradition: Ethical Roots of Spiritual Social Activism

(32)

Judaism

(7)

Christianity

(5)

Islam

(2)

Jainism

(1)

Hinduism

(2)

Buddhism

(4)

Confucianism

(2)

Taoism

(3)

``Nature''

(4)

Luther Standing Bear

Part II. Precursors of a Liberating Faith

(50)

Women, Resistance and Revolution

(3)

Sheila Rowbotham

``Women's Speaking''

(4)

Margaret Fell

``Abuses and Uses of the Bible''

(3)

Lucretia Mott

``Feminist Theology, 1880--1900''

(14)

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

``Prejudice against the Colored Man''

(3)

Theodore S. Wright

``The Sin of Slavery and Its Remedy''

(2)

Elizur Wright

Christianity and the Social Crisis

(7)

Walter Rauschenbusch

Rerum Novarum: ``The Condition of Labor''

(8)

Pope Leo XIII

A Letter Concerning Toleration

(4)

John Locke

Part III. Gandhi, the Exemplar

(20)

Selections from His Writings

(11)

Mohandas Gandhi

``Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century''

(7)

Ronald J. Terchek

Part IV. Overviews of Transformation: The Sacred, the Social, and the Political

103

(72)

``The Struggle between Two Voices of God in Torah''

105

(12)

Michael Lerner

``The Justice of Transcendence and the Transcendence of Justice''

117

(13)

Roger S. Gottlieb

The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

130

(4)

Dorothee Soelle

Qur'an, Liberation, and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression

134

(11)

Farid Esack

``The Social Teachings of the Buddha''

145

(5)

Walpola Rahula

Moral Man and Immoral Society

150

(3)

Reinhold Niebuhr

``Jesus of Nazareth/Christ of Faith: Foundations of a Reactive Christology''

153

(3)

Carter Heyward

``How Christians Become Socialists''

156

(7)

Philip Berryman

``Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality''

163

(12)

Tu Weiming

Part V. ``Justice, Justice Ye Shall Pursue''

175

(142)

``Letter from a Birmingham Jail''

177

(11)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Black Theology and Black Power

188

(8)

James H. Cone

A Theology of Liberation

196

(7)

Gustavo Gutierrez

``Toward the `Rights of the Poor': Human Rights in Liberation Theology''

203

(19)

Mark Engler

``The Martyrs' Living Witness: A Call to Honor and Challenge''

222

(9)

Daniel Berrigan

Gaudium et Spes: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Second Vatican Council, 1965

231

(11)

Economic Justice for All U.S. Catholic Bishops, 1986

242

(8)

``Love Is the Measure'' and ``Our Brothers, the Communists''

250

(3)

Dorothy Day

Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Life and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan

253

(4)

Murray Polner

Jim O'Grady

``Faith Takes a Seat at the Bargaining Table''

257

(2)

Rich Barlow

``Religion and the Fall of Communism''

259

(3)

Michael Bourdeaux

``A Catholic Rural Ethic for Agriculture, Environment, Food, and Earth'' The National Catholic Rural Life Conference

262

(6)

``Globalization and the Perennial Question of Justice''

268

(6)

Mary John Mananzan

``Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theological Critique''

274

(10)

Harvey Cox

``Sarvodaya''

284

(3)

Joanna Macy

``Alternatives to Consumerism''

287

(5)

Sulak Sivaraksa

``Islamic Banking''

292

(2)

Rami G. Khouri

``Statement of Indigenous Nations, Peoples, and Organizations''

294

(2)

``Voices of the Peoples---Voices of the Earth: Indigenous Peoples---Subjugation or Self-Determination?''

296

(9)

Michael Dodson

The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability

305

(12)

Nancy L. Eiesland

Part VI. The Liberation of Gender

317

(116)

``The `Why' and `What' of Christian Feminist Theology''

319

(10)

Anne M. Clifford

``Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: A Story of Promise and Betrayal''

329

(8)

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective

337

(10)

Judith Plaskow

``In Search of Women's Heritage''

347

(8)

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

``Islam, Women, and Gender Justice''

355

(13)

Asghar Ali Engineer

``The Feminine Critique''

368

(3)

Fernando Pages Ruiz

``A Theology of Pro-Choice: A Feminist Perspective on Abortion''

371

(6)

Beverly W. Harrison

``Every Two Minutes: Battered Women and Feminist Interpretation''

377

(9)

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

``Ministry to Women: Hearing and Empowering `Poor' Black Women'

386

(12)

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

``Ecology Is a Sistah's Issue Too: The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism''

398

(13)

Shamara Shantu Riley

The Men We Long to Be: Beyond Lonely Warriors and Desperate Lovers

411

(9)

Stephen B. Boyd

``Rituals of Healing: Ministry with and on Behalf of Gay and Lesbian People''

420

(11)

Anita C. Hill

Leo Treadway

``Resolution on Same--Gender Officiation'' Central Conference of American Rabbis

431

(2)

Part VII. The Wholeness of Peace

433

(56)

``Religion and Conflict Transformation''

435

(6)

R. Scott Appleby

``Jesus' Third Way''

441

(9)

Walter Wink

``The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of the Order of Interbeing''

450

(6)

Thich Nhat Hanh

``The Christian Challenge: Love Your Enemies''

456

(3)

Naim Stifan Ateek

The Journey toward Reconciliation

459

(4)

John Paul Lederach

``Founding Statement'' Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

463

(1)

``Speak Truth to Power'' American Friends Service Committee

464

(3)

``Resisting the Forces of Death'' and ``'No' to the Vietnam War''

467

(9)

Henri Nouen

``Toward a Theology of Resistance''

476

(4)

Thomas Merton

``September 11, 2001: A Pacifist Response''

480

(6)

Stanley Hauerwas

``The Meaning of This Hour''

486

(3)

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Part VIII. This Sacred Earth: Religion and Environmentalism

489

(122)

``Saving the World: Religion and Politics in the Environmental Movement''

491

(22)

Roger S. Gottlieb

``Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Futures''

513

(6)

Winona LaDuke

``An Aboriginal Perspective on the Integrity of Creation''

519

(4)

Stan McKay

``To Save All Beings: Buddhist Environmental Activism''

523

(17)

Stephanie Kaza

``Faith, God, and Nature: Judaism and Deep Ecology''

540

(11)

Eric Katz

``Islam and Deep Ecology''

551

(14)

Nawal H. Ammar

``The Universe Story: Its Religious Significance''

565

(8)

Thomas Berry

``The Trinity and Human Experience: An Ecofeminist Approach''

573

(9)

Ivone Gebara

``The Chipko Women's Concept of Freedom''

582

(4)

Vandana Shiva

``Race, Sacrifice, and Native Lands''

586

(4)

Jonna Higgins-Freese

Jeff Tomhave

The Earth Charter

590

(6)

``The Cochabamba Declaration on Water: Globalization, Privatization, and the Search for Alternatives''

596

(2)

``Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation'' Evangelical Environmental Network

598

(3)

Address of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

601

(4)

``The Theological Basis of Animal Rights''

605

(6)

Andrew Linzey

Part IX. From the Heart: Rituals, Prayers, Celebrations

611

(26)

``Breaking Ground: A Traditional Jewish Lesbian Wedding''

613

(6)

Inbal Kashtan

Worship Resources Earth Day Sunday National Council of Churches

619

(3)

``Dance to Heal the Earth''

622

(2)

Dee Smith

``Peace Prayers of the People'' Episcopal Peace Fellowship

624

(5)

``Remember We Are One''

629

(1)

Anwar Fazal

``All That Has Divided Us Will Merge''

630

(1)

Judy Chicago

``Please''

631

(1)

Dalai Lama

``School Prayer''

632

(1)

Diane Ackerman

``When Did We See You Hungry?'' Anonymous Lutheran Prayer from France

633

(1)

Peace Seeds

634

(3)

Further Study

637

(4)

Permissions

641

(12)

About the Editor

653

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Liberating Faith Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials