Spiritual Manifestos: Visions for Renewed Religious Life in America from Young Spiritual Leaders of Many Faiths
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.
We earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.
Book details
- Author
- Niles Elliot Goldstein
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Religion
- Topics
- spirituality · religious renewal · interfaith · faith traditions · American religion · religious community
- ISBN-13
- 9781893361096 (Hardcover)9781683363132 (Paperback)
About the author
NILES ELLIOT GOLDSTEIN is a Reform rabbi with more than twenty-five years of congregational experience and the author or editor of ten books. His books include Lost Souls, Gonzo Judaism and God at the Edge.
Goldstein holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. He has taught at New York University and Hebrew Union College and has written for Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times.
When not writing, Goldstein serves as senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Shalom of Napa Valley. He previously founded The New Shul, an independent synagogue in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, serving as its rabbi from 1999 to 2009, and has served as national Jewish chaplain for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association and as a U.S. Army chaplain.