God's Troublemakers: How Women of Faith Are Changing the World

This is a book about women who are changing the world as leaders in the public arena. Whether Christian, Jewish or MuslimGÇötheir work is religiously or spiritually motivated. They are religious or socio-ethical entrepreneurs, who have invented organizations or movements to repair the world. What shaped and formed them? How do they integrate a progressive social agenda with their faith? How do they exercise public leadership in a world where women's public roles are sometimes still suspect? The book is thematically organized and touches on many of the most relevant topics being discussed today: separation of church and state, the intersection of politics and religion, the silence of the progressive left and the embodiment of authentic religious pluralism. This book claims space for progressive forms of religion in an area dominated by the Religious Right. God's Troublemakers is based on extensive interviews with 11 women social entrepreneurs. The 3 best known are Sr. Helen Prejean, the anti-death-penalty activist; Ruth Messenger, former Manhattan Borough President and now executive director of American Jewish World Service; and Helen LaKelly Hunt, who has been a national activist funding women's causes and a leader in persuading secular feminists to make common cause with religious women.

Author: Katharine Rhodes Henderson
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 03/15/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.54w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780826429254
ISBN10: 0826429254
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Sexuality & Gender Studies
- Religion | Spirituality

About the Author
Katharine Rhodes Henderson is an ordained Presbyterian minister, who for the past decade has been the executive vice president of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. She is co-founder of Face to Face/Faith to Faith, a multifaith leadership bringing together teenagers Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus from the Middle East, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the US.

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