Joining Hands
Subtitle: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Westview Press; Westview Perseus Press
Published: May 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780813365541
Subjects: Human rights; Philosophy of religion; Social & political philosophy; Social Justice (Ethics); Sociology; Religion; United States; Social justice; Comparative Religion; General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religion, Politics & State; Religion And Politics
First sentence: As we grow up, we learn that the physical world has limits that can be transgressed only at our peril-the sharp edges of the stones by the river, the wasp's sting, taxis speeding down the street.
Description: "Did Martin Luther King's spiritual understanding of political struggle truly help the civil rights movements? Can breast cancer victims incorporate both spiritual wisdom and political action in their fight for life? Tackling such questions that shake the core of our political and spiritual foundations, Roger S. Gottlieb presents a brave new account of how religious ethics and progressive movements share a common vision of a transformed world.

In doing so, he offers a bold and eloquent affirmation: that authentic religion requires an activist, transforming presence in the political world, and that the moral and psychological insights of religion are indispensable resources in political struggles for democracy, human rights, and ecological sanity.

With original and compelling interpretations of Martin Luther King and the civil rights struggle, feminism, disability rights, the global environmental movement, and the fight against breast cancer, Joining Hands will alter the way spiritual seekers, political activists, and society as a whole think about the political role of religion and the spiritual component of politics."--BOOK JACKET.