Tikkun Reader,9780742546813

Tikkun Reader

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780742546813
ISBN10: 0742546810
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-10-30
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

Tikkun (teokun): To heal, repair, and transform the world. The Tikkun Reader is a collection of the best of Tikkun magazine from the past 20 years, providing the most cohesive collection of writings that articulate the progressive, left leaning religious perspective on the some of the most important issues in politics, culture, and society facing both Jews and non-Jews today. It includes contributions by such people as Naomi Wolf, Arthur Green, Harvey Cox, Amitai Etzioni, Daniel Berrigan, Neale Donald Walsch, Cornel West, Vandana Shiva, Dennis Kucinich, Jim Wallis, Deepak Chopra, and Noam Chomsky.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(18)
Michael Lerner
1 Approaching God
An Ocean with Many Shores
19(10)
Jorge N. Ferrer
A God that Is More than Loving
29(4)
Amitai Etzioni
Enchanted Agnosticism
33(6)
Kirk J. Schneider
Pentecostalism and the Future of Christianity
39(8)
Harvey Gallagher Cox
The God Beyond God
47(4)
Daniel C. Matt
Redemption and Ontological Mystery
51(6)
Robert Inchausti
2 Jewish Identity and Survival
The Kindest Un-Cut
57(12)
Michael S. Kimmel
Making Judaism Cool
69(8)
Jonathan Schorsch
Burning in Hell, Conservative Movement Style: Belief that Jews and Homosexuals Deserve Eternal Punishment
77(6)
Judith Plaskow
Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic "Jew-ess": A Short Story
83(8)
Ruth Knafo Setton
Crossing the Ethnic Divide: A Meditation on Anti-Semitism
91(8)
Nan Fink Gefen
3 Judaism
Notes on Jewish Spirituality
99(6)
Gershon Winkler
The Woman in the Balcony: On Reading the Song of Songs
105(12)
Daphne Merkin
A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age
117(10)
Arthur Green
Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah
127(12)
Joel R. Primack
Religious Restoration or Religious Renewal: Orthodoxy versus Pluralism in Judaism
139(6)
Arthur Waskow
On the Growing Edge of Judaism: Reb Zalman at Eighty
145(6)
Or Rose
Life as Sacred Narrative
151(6)
Estelle Frankel
In Your Blood, Live: Re-Visions of a Theology of Purity
157(8)
Rachel Adler
Starting on My Spiritual Path
165(8)
Naomi Wolf
4 The Holocaust and Its Lessons
The Holocaust's Life as a Ghost Lingering Psychological Effects
173(12)
Zygmunt Bauman
Tainted Legacy: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto
185(10)
Lawrence L. Langer
The Paradigm Challenged—Study of the Holocaust
195(18)
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
5 Israel
Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial
213(10)
Kim Chernin
We the Peacemakers
223(6)
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
The Ideological Roots of Christian Zionism
229(6)
Tony Campolo
Compromise for Peace
235(4)
Yitzhak Frankenthal
Healing Israel
239(6)
Cherie R. Brown
6 Spiritual Politics
An Interview on Spiritual Politics with Come' West
245(8)
Michael Lerner
Contemporary Developments in American Spirituality
253(4)
Daniel Berrigan
Economies of Meaning
257(6)
David C. Korten
Experts and Citizens: Rethinking Professionalism
263(8)
William M. Sullivan
Healing Our Hearts
271(2)
Deepak Chopra
Be Not Afraid
273(4)
Jim Wallis
The Force of Nonviolence
277(4)
Lama Surya Das
Confronting Evil
281(10)
Andrew Kimbrell
Power and Cooperation
291(10)
Jonathan Schell
Spiritualizing Foreign Policy
301(14)
Peter Gabel
Earth Democracy
315(8)
Vandana Shiva
A Spirituality of Resistance
323(10)
Roger S. Gottlieb
The Challenge of the Twenty-First Century
333(4)
Fritjof Capra
Techno-Utopia?
337(2)
Jackson Lears
After the End of History
339(4)
Julian Levinson
Millennial Possibilities
343(4)
Neale Donald Walsch
Index 347(16)
About the Contributors 363

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