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Book SynopsisA Spirituality of Resistance addresses the challenges of creating a spiritual life in the midst of unprecedented environmental crisis. In the end, Gottlieb finds that only through striving to protect the earth and all its inhabitants can one find authentic personal and spiritual peace.
Trade ReviewA remarkable study of how people get caught up in forces that lead to genocide and ecocide. Gottlieb's intensity of resolution, coupled with forceful argument speaking the truth to power, is all too rare today, and urgently needed. -- Holmes Rolston
Praise for the hardcover edition: If you agree we have a global problem on our hands and you want to join the spiritual seeker and the political activist in yourself, this is the book for you..... * America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture *
A true spiritual guide for our day. -- John Cobb, Jr.
An important and possibly a landmark book. -- Bill McKibben, author of "Radio Free Vermont"
A brilliant and important challenge. -- Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine; author of The Left Hand of God:Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right
Praise for the hardcover edition: Provides a bold new challenge for those who are serious about cultivating the spiritual dimension of life. In eloquent prose, Gottlieb demonstrates a mastery of both the pitfalls and possibilities for spiritual development in the face of the environmental crisis. * Environmental Ethics *
Praise for the hardcover edition: If you agree we have a global problem on our hands and you want to join the spiritual seeker and the political activist in yourself, this is the book for you. * America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture *
Will touch the reader's heart and move it to moral commitment. -- Elie Wiesel
Roger Gottlieb has written an incredibly powerful book that reconciles the seemingly incompatible realms of politics and spirituality. Written with great lucidity and admirable intellectual honesty, this book is essential reading for those of us disillusioned by the sordid events surrounding the 2000 selection of a President. Among other things, Gottlieb shows us how honest anger is a powerful spiritual asset, something which enables us to steer a course between violent rage and impotent resignation when confronted with outrageous injustice. Both religious leaders and political activists could learn a great deal from this magnificent work. A fine mix of anecdotes and statistics, science and faith, I recommend this book to anyone regardless of their stance along the political spectrum. * Biologybooks.Net *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Acknowledgements Part 2 Introduction: A Peaceful Heart, and Angry Prayer Part 3 Part One Chapter 4 1. Spirituality and Resistance: A Beginning Chapter 5 2. No Place to Hide: Spirituality, Avoidance, and Denial Chapter 6 3. Working Ourselves to Death Part 7 Part Two Chapter 8 4. A Sleepless Ethicist and Some of His Acquaintances, Including the Monoculturalist, the Poetic Naturalist, and the Very Famous Biologist Chaper 9 5. Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth Part 10 Notes Part 11 Index
