Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom

Edited by Roger S. Gottlieb

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. It includes theology, social critique, position papers, denominational statements,
manifestos, rituals, prayers, biographical accounts, and journalistic descriptions of real world
struggles, beginning with a survey of ethical teachings from traditional sources.

Following sections deal with "precursor" voices before the 20th century, Gandhi's exemplary
vision, overviews of the connections between religion, society, and political movements, and
impassioned accounts of particular issues. Containing voices from a multitude of traditions,
national settings, and perspectives.

Liberating Faith includes writings by Latin American liberation theologians and radical
American religious activists, statements on social justice by the Pope and environmental morality
by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch, religious critiques of collective and interpersonal violence,
passionate denunciations of racism and quiet eloquence which demands that we all stand up for
morality in dark times. Among the more than eighty authors are Thomas Berry, Thich Nhat
Hanh, Abraham Heschel, Martin Luther King Winona Laduke, Michael Lerner, Thomas Merton,
Henri Nouen, Judith Plaskow, Rosemary Ruether, and Vandana Shiva. An invaluable teaching
resource and the definitive introduction to global religious social activism, this book offers a
visionary alternative to both repressive fundamentalism and spiritless secularism.

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Roger S. Gottlieb is philosophy professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author

and editor of eleven books on politics, religion, philosophy, and environmentalism.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

$45.95 Paper 0-7425-2535-X November 28, 2003 608pp
$75.00 Cloth 0-7425-2534-1 November 28, 2003 608pp