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Roger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking studies of religious environmentalism, passionate account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and enlightening vision of the role of religion in a democratic society. Political and Spiritual brings together for the first time his most powerful essays on these and related themes.
The book's wealth of topics includes spiritual deep ecology, ethical theory, animal rights, the Holocaust, the environmental crisis, and the experience of disability-as well as new essays on the human meaning of technology, facing death, and a fascinating intellectual autobiography. As a whole, Political and Spiritual reveals Gottlieb's unique ability to connect our collective struggles for a just, rational, and caring society with our personal strivings for contentment, wisdom, and compassion.
List of contents
Introduction
PART I SPIRIT, JUSTICE, NATURE
1.The Transcendence of Justice and the Justice of Transcendence
2.Deep Ecology and the Left: An Effort at Reconciliation
3.Ethics and Trauma
4.Can we talk (about animal rights)?
PART II THE PROMISES OF RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENTALISM
5.Religious Environmentalism: What it is, where it's heading, and why we should be going in the same direction
6.You gonna be here long? Religion and Sustainability
7.All in the Same Boat? Religious Diversity and Religious Environmentalism,
8.Deep Ecology and World Religion: A Shared Fate, A Shared Task
9.Earth 101
PART III HOLOCAUST, ECOCIDE, JEWISH EXPERIENCE
10.Some Implications of the Holocaust for Ethics and Social Philosophy,
11."The human material is too weak"
12.Justice in a Time of Madness
13.What Difference Does it Make that we're Jewish? Global Climate Change and Transformations in Jewish Self-Understanding,
14.The Occupation: A Fable, Three Commentaries,
PART IV DISABILITY AND HUMANITY
15.The Tasks of Embodied Love: Moral Problems in Caring for Children with Disabilities
16.Disability and Social Justice
17.One Truth Faith (with Bill J. Leonard)
PART V TECHNOLOGY AND DEATH
18.What are we Doing Here?
19.A Song sung by the Universe
Acknowledgments and Sources
About the author
By Roger S. Gottlieb
Summary
This book gathers a variety of illuminating essays by an internationally known scholar of religion and ecology. New writings on technology, facing death, and an intellectual autobiography continue Gottlieb’s unique ability to connect collective struggles for a just and caring society with personal strivings for wisdom and compassion.
