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Political and Spiritual
eBook - Essays on Religion, Environment, Disability, and Justice
ISBN/EAN: 9781442239418
Umbreit-Nr.: 2159765
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 23.10.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>Roger S. Gottlieb is internationally known for his groundbreaking studies of religious environmentalism, passionate account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and enlightening vision of the role of religion in a democratic society.</span><span>Political and Spiritual</span><span> brings together for the first time his most powerful essays on these and related themes.</span></span><br><span></span><br><span><span>The books wealth of topics includes spiritual deep ecology, ethical theory, animal rights, the Holocaust, the environmental crisis, and the experience of disabilityas well as new essays on the human meaning of technology, facing death, and a fascinating intellectual autobiography. As a whole,</span><span>Political and Spiritual</span><span> reveals Gottliebs unique ability to connect our collective struggles for a just, rational, and caring society with our personal strivings for contentment, wisdom, and compassion.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>This book gathers a variety of illuminating essays by an internationally known scholar of religion and ecology. New writings on technology, facing death, and an intellectual autobiography continue Gottlieb¿s unique ability to connect</span><span> collective struggles for a just and caring society with personal strivings for wisdom and compassion.</span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>Roger S. Gottlieb</span><span> is professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Nautilus Book Award-winning author or editor of eighteen books and more than a hundred articles. Internationally known for his work on religious environmentalism, he is contributing editor to</span><span>Tikkun Magazine</span><span> and writes for</span><span>Patheos.com</span><span> and the</span><span>Huffington Pos</span><span>t. His work has appeared in publications as varied as the</span><span>Washington Post</span><span>,</span><span>Boston Globe</span><span>,</span><span>Orion Outside</span><span>, and leading academic journals. His books include</span><span>A Spirituality of Resistance, Liberating Faith</span><span>,</span><span>Marxism: 1844-1990</span><span>, and the environmental fiction</span><span>Engaging Voices</span><span>.</span></span>