The Tikkun Reader
Description
For the past twenty years, Tikkun magazine has advanced liberal ideals, featuring articles on such important issues as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish culture, and the intersection of religion and politics in the United States. Tikkun Reader is a collection of the best of Tikkun magazine since its inception, providing the most cohesive collection of writings articulating the progressive, left-leaning religious perspective on some of the most important issues facing both Jews and non-Jews today. This collection includes contributions by such people as: Daniel Matt, Judith Plaskow, Arthur Green, Arthur Waskow, Estelle Frankel, Naomi Wolf, Zygmunt Bauman, Cornel West, Daniel Berrigan, David Korten, Deepak Chopra, Jim Wallis, Jonathan Schell, Vandana Shiva, Roger Gottlieb, Fritjof Capra and many more. Thematically arranged essays focus on a variety of topics, including Approaching God, Jewish Identity, Judaism, Israel, the Holocaust, and Spiritual Politics. An introduction by founder and editor-in-chief Michael Lerner sets the stage and places the readings in context.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Approaching God
Chapter 3 An Ocean With Many Shores
Chapter 4 A God That Is More Than Loving
Chapter 5 Enchanted Agnosticism
Chapter 6 Pentecostalism and the Future of Christianity
Chapter 7 The God Beyond God
Chapter 8 Redemption and the Ontological Mystery
Part 9 Jewist Identity and Survival
Chapter 10 The Kindest Un-Cut
Chapter 11 Making Judaism Cool
Chapter 12 Burning in Hell, Conservative Movement Style
Chapter 13 Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic "Jew"ess
Chapter 14 Crossing the Ethnic Divide
Part 15 Judaism
Chapter 16 Notes on Jewish Spirituality
Chapter 17 The Woman in the Balcony: On Reading the Song of Songs
Chapter 18 A Kabbalah For the Environmental Age
Chapter 19 Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah
Chapter 20 Religious Restoration or Religious Renewal
Chapter 21 On the Growing Edge of Judaism: Reb Zalman at Eighty
Chapter 22 Life as Sacred Narrative
Chapter 23 In Your Blood, Live: re-visions of a theology of purity
Chapter 24 Starting On My Spiritual Path
Part 25 The Holocaust & Its Lessons
Chapter 26 The Holocaust's Life as a Ghost-Lingering Psychological Effects
Chapter 27 Tainted Legacy: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto
Chapter 28 The Paradigm Challenged-Study of the Holocaust
Part 29 Israel
Chapter 30 Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial
Chapter 31 We the Peacemakers
Chapter 32 The Ideological Roots of Christian Zionists
Chapter 33 Compromise for Peace
Chapter 34 Healing Israel
Part 35 Spiritual Politics
Chapter 36 An Interview on Spiritual Politics With Michael Lerner & Cornel West
Chapter 37 Contemporary American Spirituality
Chapter 38 Economies of Meaning
Chapter 39 Experts and Citizens: Rethinking Professionalism
Chapter 40 Healing Our Hearts
Chapter 41 Be Not Afraid
Chapter 42 The Force of Nonviolence
Chapter 43 Confronting Evil
Chapter 44 Power and Cooperation
Chapter 45 Spiritualizing Foreign Policy
Chapter 46 Earth Democracy
Chapter 47 A Spirituality of Resistance
Chapter 48 The Challenge of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 49 Techno-Utopia?
Chapter 50 After the End of History
Chapter 51 Millennial Possibilities
Product details
| Published | 09 Oct 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 20th |
| Extent | 376 |
| ISBN | 9781461666691 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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