Progressive & Religious tells the story of the emerging progressive religious movement in America through an analysis of over 80 in-depth interviews with contemporary religious leaders including nationally known figures such as Rabbis David Saperstein and Michael Lerner, Revs. Jim Wallis and Brian McLaren, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Eboo Patel, Kecia Ali, Lama Surya Das, Robert Thurman, and E. J. Dionne.



Autorentext

By Robert P. Jones



Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: Moving Beyond the Culture Wars: Finding Progressive Religion in America
Chapter 2 Lifting the Line of History: How Progressive Jews are Healing the World
Chapter 3 More Truth Breaking Out: How Progressive Christians are Seeking the Reign of God on Earth
Chapter 4 Knowing One Another: How Progressive Muslims are Fostering Justice, Beauty, and Pluralism
Chapter 5 Just Sitting Down: How Progressive Buddhists are Being Peace and Embodying Justice
Chapter 6 Conclusion: Progressive & Religious: The New Face of Religion in American Public Life
Chapter 7 List of Interviewees
Chapter 8 Bibliography

Titel
Progressive & Religious
Untertitel
How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond Partisan Politics and Transforming American Public Life
EAN
9780742565500
ISBN
978-0-7425-6550-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
25.07.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.15 MB
Anzahl Seiten
280
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch