Spiritual Manifestos: Visions for Renewed Religious Life in America from Young Spiritual Leaders of Many Faiths - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683363132 ISBN 13: 9781683363132

Publisher: SkyLight Paths, 1999

Synopsis

Young spiritual leaders are beginning to remove the reasons why
so many of us have kept religion at arm's length.

"Spiritual sagacity does not belong only to seniors like Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day, Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel, the veteran Desmond Tutu and the aging Dalai Lama. Let's hear from a generation that is marked by new experiences."
―from the Preface by Martin E. Marty

By transforming our faith traditions in light of today's increasing diversity, the search for community, the Internet and our changing lifestyles, these young, visionary spiritual leaders are helping to create the new spirituality.

Ten contributors, most in their mid-thirties, span the spectrum of religious traditions―Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, Buddhist―and offer their "visions," bold spiritual manifestos, for transforming our faith communities and our lives.

Hear how one Catholic priest proclaims "all religion and spirituality ought to be zesty, passionate, rich and deep"; how one rabbi serves a "congregation" on the web for Microsoft and rides in squad cars on drug busts in New York City; how a self-described "Zen priest" is serving an Episcopal church in Alaska; and how a talented young woman lives her "wild and precious life" changing the world as a nun.

These stories, and others, will challenge your assumptions about what religion is―and isn't.

About this title

From the Author:

Spiritual Manifestos is a great way to gain insight into some of the challenges facing those of us younger clergy who are trying to develop new ways of making religious life more meaningful and powerful to the next generation. We won't preach to you--instead, we offer our stories, our insights, our struggles. There IS an option to the hoakiness of much of the New Age movement and the dogmatism of fundamentalaism, and it is an option we are only beginning to explore. Come join us in this great spiritual adventure!

About the Author:

Niles Elliot Goldstein is the founding rabbi of The New Shul in Greenwich Village, New York City, a program officer/educator at the Jewish Life Network, and an associate of CLAL: the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He has written for Newsweek magazine, is the voice behind "Ask the Rabbi" for Microsoft, and is the National Jewish Chaplain for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. He is the author or editor of three other books. Goldstein lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: SkyLight Paths
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1683363132
• ISBN 13: 9781683363132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Goldstein Niles Elliot