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Informationen zum Autor Carter Heyward is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States. In 1974, she was one of the Philadelphia Eleven, eleven women whose ordinations eventually paved the way for the recognition of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in 1976. Heyward is the author of some eleven books and has edited / contributed to a further three. Her most recent books are Tears of Christopena: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding and She Flies On: A White Christian Debutante Wakes Up. She lives the North Carolina mountains south of Asheville. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: A Liberating Faith Part 2 Part I: Tradition: Ethical Roots of Spiritual Social Activism Chapter 3 Judaism Chapter 4 Christianity Chapter 5 Islam Chapter 6 Jainism Chapter 7 Hinduism Chapter 8 Buddhism Chapter 9 Confucianism Chapter 10 Taoism Chapter 11 Luther Standing Bear, "Nature" Part 12 Part II: Precursors of a Liberating Faith Chapter 13 from Women Resistance and Revolution Chapter 14 from Women Speaking Chapter 15 from Abuses and Uses of the Bible Chapter 16 Feminist Theology, 1880-1900 Chapter 17 Prejudice Against the Colored Man Chapter 18 The Sin of Slavery and Its Remedy Chapter 19 from Solidarity and Communism, and The New Apstolate Chapter 20 from Rerun Novarum: The Condition of Labor Chapter 21 from A Letter Concerning Toleration Part 22 Part III: Ghandi: The Exemplar Chapter 23 Selections from writings Chapter 24 Gandhi for the 21st Century Part 25 Part IV: Overviews of Transformation: The Sacred, the Social, and the Political Chapter 26 The Struggle Between Two Voices of God in Torah Chapter 27 The Justice of Transcendence and the Transcendence of Justice Chapter 28 from Mysticism and Resistance Chapter 29 from Quar'an, Liberation, and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression Chapter 30 The Social Teachings of the Buddha Chapter 31 from Moral Man and Immoral Society Chapter 32 from Jesus of Nazareth/Christ of Faith: Foundations of a Reactive Christology Chapter 33 How Christians Become Socialists Chapter 34 Beyond the Enlightenment Mentalilty Part 35 Part V: "Justice, Justice ye shall pursue" Chapter 36 Letter from a Birmingham Jail Chapter 37 from Black Theology and Black Power Chapter 38 from A Theology of Liberation Chapter 39 Toward the Rights of the Poor: Human Rights in Liberation Theology Chapter 40 The Martyrs' Living Witness: A Call to Honor and Challenge Chapter 41 from Gaudium et Spes: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Chapter 42 from Economic Justice for All Chapter 43 Love is the Measure; Our Brothers, the Communists Chapter 44 from Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Life and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan Chapter 45 Faith takes a seat at bargaining table Chapter 46 Religion and the Fall of Communism Chapter 47 A Catholic Rural Ethic for Agriculture, Environment, Food, and Earth Chapter 48 Globalization and the Perennial Question of Justice Chapter 49 Mammon and the Culture of the Market: A Socio-Theologial Critique Chapter 50 Sarvodaya Chapter 51 Alternatives to Consumerism Chapter 52 Islamic Banking Chapter 53 Statement of Indigenous Nations, Peoples, and Organizati...
