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Below is a list of books authored, co-authored, or edited by Professor Gottlieb.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology

This book serves as the definitive scholarly overview of the exciting new connections between religion and ecology. Part I explores traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis. Part II analyzes conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions. Part III examines religious participation in environmental politics. With essays by the leading scholars in the field, many of whom have been instrumental in the rise of religious environmentalism, this Handbook will be invaluable to anyone interested in religion, environmentalism, and the future of our planet.

A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future

"Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings." - Oxford University Press

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Roger S. Gottlieb has written a seminal book examining the emerging debate on environmental ethics among the world's great faith traditions and what that means for the future of environmental stewardship.
-- Carl Pope, Executive Director, The Sierra Club

Roger S. Gottlieb presents a comprehensive view of the nexus of religion and the environment. The specific stories of faith-based environmentalism provide a bright picture of the faith community's capacity for caring for God's creation. If we actively follow his lead, we will go a long way toward being more effective stewards of our fragile planet.
-- Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches USA

Eminently readable, this book would make student discussions far more knowledgeable and sophisticated. It provides insights to religious environmentalists and helps broaden the views of the despisers of religion. Above all, this is a hopeful and wise book.
-- Environmental Ethics

Gottlieb's beautifully written and carefully researched work is essential reading for people of faith, environmentalists, scholars and anyone who is concerned about our planet's future.
-- Daily Star (U.K.)

An extended exercise in the practice of hope.
-- San Francisco Chronicle

Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom

This sweeping new anthology shows how religion has joined with and learned from movements for social justice, peace, and ecological wisdom. Liberating Faith surveys the entire range of religious social activism: from liberation theology and feminist religion to ecotheology and peace activism. It includes theology, social critique, position papers, denominational statements, manifestos, rituals, prayers, biographical accounts, and journalistic descriptions of real world struggles, beginning with a survey of ethical teachings from traditional sources.

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What a treasure-trove Liberating Faith is. Reading it is both intellectually enriching and spiritually nourishing. It offers an alternative to 'repressive fundamentalism' and 'spiritless secularism.' Truly, it is a rich resource for the seasoned social activist and beginner alike.
-- Religious Studies Review

Roger Gottlieb has done us all an enormous service by bringing together in this volume the words of the most inspiring and insightful thinkers of our time, from all over the world. We learn here, in passage after passage of surpassing eloquence, that political activism on behalf of peace and justice cannot live and grow unless suffused with spiritual powers. I hope this book will be widely read in classrooms all over the country, because it is a needed corrective for politics without heart, and religion without justice.
-- Howard Zinn

Roger Gottlieb offers a splendid anthology of sanctity and hope. Religious and secular voices, in the best tradition of each, speak up, loud and clear. The sum is a synthesis of enlightened, courageous idealism. In a dark time, gratitude befits.
-- Daniel Berrigan

This book can be of tremendous value to secondary school teachers dealing with issues of social justice, and it includes readings that would greatly serve students in a variety of ethics courses. The book is full of treasures, some timeless, some quite recent, most of which deserve the kind of slow savoring that allow the fullness of their thoughts to take hold.
-- Religious Studies in Secondary Schools

This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment
(Second Edition)
New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
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I welcome this second edition of This Sacred Earth, more comprehensive and inclusive than ever. The promise of religion is splendidly and urgently documented here.
-- Hollmes Rolston, III

Roger Gottlieb has done a masterful job in covering the diversity of the spiritual response to the real roots of our ecologic crisis�It remains the textbook for college courses that focus on the link between religion and environment.
-- J. Baird Callicott

A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
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Gottlieb is able to speak to a wide audience, managing to stay away from religious dogma and speak directly to our heart. He questions the nature of how we define work, which generally forms a large part of personal identity, but is all too often under the control of bureaucracies that are contributing to the environmental degradation we all fear. He gives us the spiritual fuel needed to rekindle our desire to do what we can and not get discouraged.
-- Faithalive.com

Will touch the reader's heart and move it to moral commitment.
-- Elie Wiesel

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

A brilliant and important challenge.
-- Rabbi Michael Lerner

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

Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change
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Roger Gottlieb has produced a profound and significant integration of spiritual and political concerns. Highlighting the spiritual strengths and weaknesses of the civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements, Gottlieb shows that world-making politics and religion can be partners as they inform and deepen each other. As he ponders his role as a father of a physically challenged child, eschewing a perpetually optimistic version of spirituality, Gottlieb forces us to rethinking our commitment to "rational autonomy" as central to human identity. Rather than the dogmatic confidence of the true believer, Gottlieb offers faith and hope that leads to individual and collective political action even in the face of sorrow and loss, and without the surety of success.
-- Tikkun

Joining Hands presents an outstanding and critical analysis of the issues of politics and religion, and examines their existing and possible modes of interface in order to enhance �the full openness of religion and politics to each other�s insights.� It is difficult to quarrel with a book that is so well-written, so steeped in scholarship, and so good at anticipating and answering criticisms.
-- Socialism and Democracy

Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground.
(co-edited with David barnhill). Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.
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The Ecological Community: Environmental Challenges for Philosophy, Politics, and Morality.
New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
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Radical Philosophy: Tradition. Counter-Tradition, Politics.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993
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Marxism 1844-1990: Origins, betrayal, Rebirth.
New York and London: Routledge, 1992.
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A New Creation: America's Contemporary Spiritual Voices.
New York: Crossroad Press, 1990
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Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust.
New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1990.
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An Anthology of Western Marxism: From Lukacs and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
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History and Subjectivity: The Transformation of Marxist Theory.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987; Atlantic Highlands, NJ and London: Humanities Press Paperback edition: 1993.
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Sections Home Biography Books Recent & Upcoming Public Lectures CV Photography Courses	Below is a list of books authored, co-authored, or edited by Professor Gottlieb. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology This book serves as the definitive scholarly overview of the exciting new connections between religion and ecology. Part I explores traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis. Part II analyzes conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions. Part III examines religious participation in environmental politics. With essays by the leading scholars in the field, many of whom have been instrumental in the rise of religious environmentalism, this Handbook will be invaluable to anyone interested in religion, environmentalism, and the future of our planet. A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future "Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings." - Oxford University Press Book & purchasing details at Oxford University Press online Roger S. Gottlieb has written a seminal book examining the emerging debate on environmental ethics among the world's great faith traditions and what that means for the future of environmental stewardship. -- Carl Pope, Executive Director, The Sierra Club Roger S. Gottlieb presents a comprehensive view of the nexus of religion and the environment. The specific stories of faith-based environmentalism provide a bright picture of the faith community's capacity for caring for God's creation. If we actively follow his lead, we will go a long way toward being more effective stewards of our fragile planet. -- Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches USA Eminently readable, this book would make student discussions far more knowledgeable and sophisticated. It provides insights to religious environmentalists and helps broaden the views of the despisers of religion. Above all, this is a hopeful and wise book. -- Environmental Ethics Gottlieb's beautifully written and carefully researched work is essential reading for people of faith, environmentalists, scholars and anyone who is concerned about our planet's future. -- Daily Star (U.K.) An extended exercise in the practice of hope. -- San Francisco Chronicle Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace, and Ecological Wisdom This sweeping new anthology shows how religion has joined with and learned from movements for social justice, peace, and ecological wisdom. Liberating Faith surveys the entire range of religious social activism: from liberation theology and feminist religion to ecotheology and peace activism. It includes theology, social critique, position papers, denominational statements, manifestos, rituals, prayers, biographical accounts, and journalistic descriptions of real world struggles, beginning with a survey of ethical teachings from traditional sources. Buying details at Amazon.com What a treasure-trove Liberating Faith is. Reading it is both intellectually enriching and spiritually nourishing. It offers an alternative to 'repressive fundamentalism' and 'spiritless secularism.' Truly, it is a rich resource for the seasoned social activist and beginner alike. -- Religious Studies Review Roger Gottlieb has done us all an enormous service by bringing together in this volume the words of the most inspiring and insightful thinkers of our time, from all over the world. We learn here, in passage after passage of surpassing eloquence, that political activism on behalf of peace and justice cannot live and grow unless suffused with spiritual powers. I hope this book will be widely read in classrooms all over the country, because it is a needed corrective for politics without heart, and religion without justice. -- Howard Zinn Roger Gottlieb offers a splendid anthology of sanctity and hope. Religious and secular voices, in the best tradition of each, speak up, loud and clear. The sum is a synthesis of enlightened, courageous idealism. In a dark time, gratitude befits. -- Daniel Berrigan This book can be of tremendous value to secondary school teachers dealing with issues of social justice, and it includes readings that would greatly serve students in a variety of ethics courses. The book is full of treasures, some timeless, some quite recent, most of which deserve the kind of slow savoring that allow the fullness of their thoughts to take hold. -- Religious Studies in Secondary Schools This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment (*Second Edition) New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Buying details at Amazon.com (paperback, 2nd edition) I welcome this second edition of This Sacred Earth, more comprehensive and inclusive than ever. The promise of religion is splendidly and urgently documented here. -- Hollmes Rolston, III Roger Gottlieb has done a masterful job in covering the diversity of the spiritual response to the real roots of our ecologic crisis�It remains the textbook for college courses that focus on the link between religion and environment. -- J. Baird Callicott A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 buying Details at Amazon.com (paperback) Gottlieb is able to speak to a wide audience, managing to stay away from religious dogma and speak directly to our heart. He questions the nature of how we define work, which generally forms a large part of personal identity, but is all too often under the control of bureaucracies that are contributing to the environmental degradation we all fear. He gives us the spiritual fuel needed to rekindle our desire to do what we can and not get discouraged. -- Faithalive.com Will touch the reader's heart and move it to moral commitment. -- Elie Wiesel 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 A brilliant and important challenge. -- Rabbi Michael Lerner 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 Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change Buying details at Amazon.com [Hardcover] Buying details at Amazon.com [Paperback] Roger Gottlieb has produced a profound and significant integration of spiritual and political concerns. Highlighting the spiritual strengths and weaknesses of the civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements, Gottlieb shows that world-making politics and religion can be partners as they inform and deepen each other. As he ponders his role as a father of a physically challenged child, eschewing a perpetually optimistic version of spirituality, Gottlieb forces us to rethinking our commitment to "rational autonomy" as central to human identity. Rather than the dogmatic confidence of the true believer, Gottlieb offers faith and hope that leads to individual and collective political action even in the face of sorrow and loss, and without the surety of success. -- Tikkun Joining Hands* presents an outstanding and critical analysis of the issues of politics and religion, and examines their existing and possible modes of interface in order to enhance �the full openness of religion and politics to each other�s insights.� It is difficult to quarrel with a book that is so well-written, so steeped in scholarship, and so good at anticipating and answering criticisms. -- Socialism and Democracy Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground. (co-edited with David barnhill). Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. buying Details at Amazon.com The Ecological Community: Environmental Challenges for Philosophy, Politics, and Morality. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. buying Details at Amazon.com Radical Philosophy: Tradition. Counter-Tradition, Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993 buying Details at Amazon.com Marxism 1844-1990: Origins, betrayal, Rebirth. New York and London: Routledge, 1992. buying Details at Amazon.com A New Creation: America's Contemporary Spiritual Voices. New York: Crossroad Press, 1990 buying Details at Amazon.com Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust. New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1990. buying Details at Amazon.com An Anthology of Western Marxism: From Lukacs and Gramsci to Socialist-Feminism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. buying Details at Amazon.com History and Subjectivity: The Transformation of Marxist Theory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987; Atlantic Highlands, NJ and London: Humanities Press Paperback edition: 1993. buying Details at Amazon.com