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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806118603321

Autore

Gottlieb Roger S

Titolo

Joining hands : politics and religion together for social change / / Roger S. Gottlieb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Westview Perseus Press, c2002

ISBN

0-367-31644-7

0-429-96805-1

0-429-49950-7

0-429-97913-4

1-283-26149-9

9786613261496

0-8133-4621-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

291.177

Soggetti

Religion and politics - United States

Social justice - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part ONE; 1 Two Ways of World Making; 2 The Time Is Ripe; 3 Politics Teaching Religion; 4 Religion Teaching Politics; Part TWO; 5 Redemptive Suffering and the Civil Rights Movement; 6 After Patriarchy: Feminist Politics and the Transformation of Religion; 7 Saving the World: Religion and Politics in the Environmental Movement; 8 Beyond Our Private Sorrows: Spirituality and Politics as Responses to Breast Cancer and Disability; 9 Toward Hope, Together; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Goes beyond the church-versus-state debate to argue that religious belief and spiritual practice are integral to the politics of social change; and that political insights and activism are essential to authentic religious life.