Goes beyond the church-versus-state debate to argue that religious belief and spiritual practice are integral to the politics of social change; and that political insights and activism are essential to authentic religious life.

Roger S. Gottliebis a professor of philosophy in the department of humanities and arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of twelve books on politics, religion, the Holocaust, and ecology; and has contributed to numerous publications including Tikkun, the Boston Globe, Orion Afield, and Ethics. He lives in Boston.

Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I, Two Ways of World Making, The Time Is Ripe, Politics Teaching Religion, Religion Teaching Politics, PART II, Redemptive Suffering and the Civil Rights Movement, After Patriarchy: Feminist Politics and the Transformation of Religion, Saving the World: Religion and Politics in the Environmental Movement, Beyond Our Private Sorrows: Spirituality and Politics as Responses to Breast Cancer and Disability, Toward Hope, Together, Notes, Index