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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A collection of essays that demonstrate the vitality of current liberal religious thought<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566397568&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1446_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Voices of the Religious Left</h1>
<H2>A Contemporary Sourcebook</H2>
<h3>edited by Rebecca T. Alpert</h3>
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</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"[These essays] represent the power of the written word as a vehicle for advocacy and social change …. It is my hope that the readers of these essays will themselves feel compelled to think more about the importance of taking a stand on issues from religious perspectives, and to act on something that compels them."</I>
<BR>—<B>Rabbi Rebecca Alpert</B><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>What has happened to the religious left? If there is a religious left, why don't we hear more about it?
<P>The academics and activists who write this rich volume, edited by Rebecca Alpert, argue passionately on topics that concern all of us. Quoting from the Bible, the Torah, the Qur'an, the teachings of Buddha, as well as Native American folklore, they make the voices of the religious left heard—teaching lessons of peace and liberation.
<P>As this invaluable sourcebook shows, the religious left is committed to issues of human rights and dignity. Answering questions of identity and ideology, the essays included here stem from the "culture wars" that have divided orthodox and liberal believers. Responding to the needs of and raised by marginalized social groups, the writers discuss economic issues and religious politics as they champion equal rights, and promote the teaching of progressive vision.
<P>Containing insightful perspectives of adherents to many faiths, <I>Voices of the Religious Left</I> makes it clear that there <I>is</I> a group dedicated to instilling the values of justice and freedom. They are far from silent.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><i>"...chock-full of politically engaged, theologically and textually grounded essays.... Many of the essays also provide serious spiritual ammunition.... </i>Voices<i> illuminates the ways some people have taken their sense of religious duty out into a broken world and infused their in-the-trenches </i>tikkun olam<i> with a relationship to the bigger picture. The magic here is both in the details and in the sweeping sense that we are all, in fact, working toward the same goals from, as somebody once said, a thousand points of light. Until we can get there, </i>Voices of the Religious Left<i> offers indispensable, high-octane edification and inspiration—just what we'll need along the way."</i>
<br>—<b>Danya Rutttenberg</b>, <i>LILITH</i>
<p><i>"Alpert's collection is of genuine service for understanding and engaging with contemporary perspectives of 'the religious left'..."</i>
<br>–<b><i>Nova Religio</i></b>
<p><i>"This book does a fine job of showing how the religious left can be part of religious belief, including for those who, for the most part, adhere to fairly traditional religious beliefs."</i>
<br>—<b><i>Journal of Church and State</i></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<br>Introduction
<p><b>Part I: Making Progressive Religious Theology: Warrant for Progressive Religious Thought and Action</b>
<br>1. Renewing the Heart of Faith: A Prophetic Convergence of the People of God – Jim Wallis
<br>2. Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voices – Delores S. Williams
<br>3. Theology as a Public Responsibility – Richard A. McCormic, S.J., and Richard P. McBrien
<br>4. Reflections from a Latin American Theologian – Gustavo Gutierrez
<br>5. Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians: Deliverance, Conquest, and Liberation Theology Today – Robert Allan Warrior
<br>6. Re-imagining God: Reflections on Mirrors, Motheroot, and Memory – Rita Nakashima Brock
<br>7. Martin Luther King and the Future of America – Vincent Harding
<p><b>Part II: Focusing on the Issues</b>
<p>ALTHOUGH SUFFERING IS LIMITLESS, I VOW TO END IT (The Boddhisatva Vow)
<br>8. The Skewing of America: Disparities in Wealth and Income – Ronald D. Pasquariello
<br>9. Poverty, Women, and Reproduction: Welfare Reform and Social Justice – A position paper of Catholics for a Free Choice
<br>10. Jews, Money, and Social Responsibility – Lawrence Bush and Jeffrey Dekro
<br>11. Option for the Poor: Preference or Platitude? – Thomas J. Paprocki
<p>THE EARTH IS THE LORD�S (Psalm 24:1)
<br>12. The Greening of Buddhist Practice – Kenneth Kraft
<br>13. The Theological Basis of Animal Rights – Andrew Linzey
<br>14. From Compassion to Jubilee – Arthur Waskow
<p>AM I MY BROTHER�S KEEPER (Genesis 4:9)
<br>15. Apartheid as Idolatry – James H. Evans
<br>16. Pesach and the Palestinians – Arthur Waskow
<br>17. The Martyrs' Living Witness: A Call to Honor and Challenge – Daniel Berrigan
<br>18. Back to the Dust: How I Rediscovered the Power of Scripture – Barbara Holmes
<br>19. Catholics and Colonialism: The Church's Failure in Rwanda – Todd Salzman
<p>PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND (Leviticus 25:10)
<br>20. The Full Circle of Liberation: An American Indian Theology of Place – George Tinker
<br>21. The Upward Mobility of the Gospel – Helen Prejean
<br>22. Between Brick and Steel – Mumia Abu-Jamal
<br>23. Release the Prisoners! – Eliezer Valent�n-Casta��n
<br>24. Free Speech in Pauline Political Theology – David Fredrickson
<p>THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE (Galatians 3:28)
<br>25. The Worth of a Woman – Laila Al-Marayati
<br>26. Violence against Women: The Theological Dimension – Mary Pellauer
<br>27. In God's Image: Coming to Terms with Leviticus – Rebecca T. Alpert
<br>28. Homosexuality: Challenging the Church to Grow – John J. McNeill
<br>29. Searching Scripture for a Model of the Family – Rosemary Radford Ruether
<br>30. The <I>New York Times</I> Ad: A Case Study in Religious Feminism – Mary E. Hunt and Frances Kissling
<br>31. Antiabortion / Prochoice: Taking Both Sides – Helen Tworkov
<p><b>Part III: Building Bridges: Know One Another</b>
<br>32. Difference Is No Excuse for Hatred – Diana Eck
<br>33. A Case Study: American Christians, Jews, and Muslims Working Together for Middle East Peace – Ronald J. Young
<br>34. Reconsidering Christopher Columbus and the Recovery of a Biblical Theology of Mission – Wi Jo Kang
<br>35. The Church's False Witness against Jews – Carl D. Evans
<br>36. Arena for Interaction – Lee Ranck
<p>About the Contributors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1446_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Rebecca T. Alpert</B> is Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's Studies, Temple University. She is the author of <I>Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition</I>, and the co-author of <I>Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach</I>.</P></td></tr></table>
<P>Contributors: Jim Wallis, Delores S. Williams, Richard A. McCormick, S. J., Richard P. McBrien, Gustavo Gutierrez, Robert Allan Warrior, Rita Nakashima Brock, Vincent Harding, Ronald D. Pasquariello, Catholics for a Free Choice, Lawrence Bush, Jeffrey Dekro, Thomas J. Paprocki, Kenneth Kraft, Andrew Linzey, James H. Evans, Arthur Waskow, Daniel Berrigan, Barbara Holmes, Todd Salzman, George Tinker, Helen Prejean, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Eliezer Valent�n-Casto��n, David Fredrickson, Laila Al-Marayati, Mary Pellauer, John J. McNeill, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Mary E. Hunt, Frances Kissling, Helen Tworkov, Diana Eck, Ronald T. Young, Wi Jo Kang, Carl D. Evans, Lee Ranck, and the editor.</P>
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