Tikkun Reader

by Lerner, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780742546813
• ISBN10: 0742546810
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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