Roger S. Gottlieb is a professor of philosophy in the department of humanities and arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of twelve books on politics, religion, the Holocaust, and ecology; and has contributed to numerous publications including Tikkun, the Boston Globe, Orion Afield, and Ethics. He lives in Boston.

• PART I, 1 Two Ways of World Making, 2 The Time Is Ripe, 3 Politics Teaching Religion, 4 Religion Teaching Politics, PART II, 5 Redemptive Suffering and the Civil Rights Movement, 6 After Patriarchy: Feminist Politics and the Transformation of Religion, 7 Saving the World: Religion and Politics in the Environmental Movement, 8 Beyond Our Private Sorrows: Spirituality and Politics as Responses to Breast Cancer and Disability, 9 Toward Hope, Together