The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left"
by Jim Wallis
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Wallis draws on his experience in urban ghettos to show why traditional liberal and conservative options that emphasize either social justice or personal values fall short. He looks outside the traditional corridors of power to find solutions. Foreword by Garry Wills; Preface by Cornel West.Tags
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The Soul of Politics responds to signs of cultural breakdown and political impasse with a resounding call to reintegrate politics and spirituality. The author shares why both liberal and conservative visions are inadequate to the challenges before us.
Discusses breakdown and political impasse, and argues for social justice and responsibility.
Jim Wallis's classic The Soul of Politics has been widely praised for its prescience and passion. In fact, no issue has become more topical or polarizing in the United States than the intersection of religion and politics, with the country seemingly irreconcilably split between the "religious right" and the "secular left."
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Jim Wallis was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 4, 1948. He graduated from Michigan State University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is an evangelical Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. He has show more written numerous books including The Great Awakening; Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (2008), God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2005), Faith Works: How Faith Based Organizations Are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America (2000), The Soul of Politics: Beyond Religious Right and Secular Left (1995) and The Call to Conversion (1981). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Philosophy
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- 261.7 — Religion Christian organization, social work & worship Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes Christianity and political affairs
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- BR115 .P7 .W26 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity Christianity in relation to special subjects
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