Engaged Buddhism & Liberation Theology

While I never attend conferences that cost anything close to the amount required here as a registration fee (for non-Union students and others), I nonetheless thought this may interest RLL readers in the New York area:  “Enlightenment and Liberation: Engaged Buddhists and Liberation Theologians in Dialogue.” It is being held at the Union Theological Seminary from April 17 (Wednesday) to April 20 (Saturday), 2013. The roster of participants from the Buddhist and Christian traditions is rather impressive.  

A sampling of the relevant literature:

Engaged Buddhism—

• Aung San Suu Kyi. Freedom from Fear & Other Writings. London: Penguin, revised ed., 1995.
• Badiner, Allan Hunt, ed. Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1990.
• Batchelor, Martine and Kerry Brown, eds. Buddhism and Ecology. London: Cassell, 1992.
• Chappell, David W., ed. Buddhist Peacework: Creating Cultures of Peace. Boston, MA: Wisdom, 1999.
• Cooper, David E. and Simon P. James. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
• de Silva, Padmasiri. Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.
• Eppsteiner, Fred, ed. The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2nd ed., 1988.
• Glassman, Bernard. Bearing Witness: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Making Peace. New York: Bell Tower, 1999.
• Gross, Rita M. Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.
• Gross, Rita M. Soaring and Setting: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues. New York: Continuum, 1998.
• Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Hershock, Peter D. Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.
• Hershock, Peter D. Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence. New York: Routledge, 2006.
• James, Simon P. Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
• Jones, Ken. Beyond Optimism: A Buddhist Political Ecology. Oxford, UK: Jon Carpenter, 1993.
• Jones, Ken. The Social Face of Buddhism: An Approach to Social and Political Activism. London: Wisdom, 1989.
• Kapleau, Roshi Philip. To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian. New York: HarperCollins, 1982.
• Kapleau, Roshi Philip. To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist View of Animal Slaughter and Meat Eating. Rochester, NY: The Zen Center, 1981.
• Kaza, Stephanie and Kenneth Kraft, eds. Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2000.
• Keown, Damien. Buddhism and Bioethics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
• Keown, Damien, ed. Buddhism and Abortion. London: Macmillan, 1998.
• Keown, Damien, et al., eds. Buddhism and Human Rights. London: Curzon, 1998.
• Khong, Chan. Learning True Love: How I Learned and Practiced Social Change in Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1993.
• Kotler, Arnold, ed. Engaged Buddhist Reader. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1996.
• Kraft, Kenneth. The Wheel of Engaged Buddhism: A New Map of the Path. New York: Weatherhill, 2000.
• Kraft, Kenneth, ed. Inner Peace, World Peace:  Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
• Leyland, Winston, ed. Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists, Vol. 1. San Francisco, CA: Gay Sunshine Press, 1998.
• Macy, Joanna. Dharma and Development: Religion as Resource in the Sarvodaya Self-help Movement. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, revised ed., 1985.
• Nhat Hanh, Thich. Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, revised ed.,1993.
• Phelps, Norm. The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights. New York: Lantern Press, 2004.
• Prebish, Charles S., ed. Buddhist Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Approach. Dubuque, IA: Kendal/Hunt Publ., 1992.
• Preston, David L. The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Queen, Christopher S., Charles S. Prebish and Damien Keown, eds. Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism. London: Curzon, 2003.
• Queen, Christopher S., ed. Engaged Buddhism in the West. Boston, MA: Wisdom, 2000.
• Queen, Christopher S. and Sallie B. King, ed. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.
• Sivaraksa, Sulak. Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991.
• Sizemore, Russell F. and Donald K. Swearer, eds. Ethics, Wealth, and Salvation: A Study in Buddhist Social Ethics. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.
• Snyder, Gary. A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1995.
• Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1990.
• Snyder, Gary. The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-1979. New York: New Directions, 1980.
• Topmiller, Robert J. The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
• Tucker, Mary Evelyn and Duncan Ryūkan Williams, eds. Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds. Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School (and Harvard University Press), 1998.
• Williams, Duncan Ryuken. Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1997.

Liberation Theology (broadly construed, hence, for example, works related to Catholic Worker movement)—

• Barbé, Dominique. Grace and Power: Base Communities and Nonviolence in Brazil. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987.
• Barbé, Dominique. A Theology of Conflict and Other Writings on Nonviolence. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
• Bartlett, Woody. Living By Surprise: A Christian Response to the Ecological Crisis. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 2003.
• Berrigan, Daniel. The Steadfastness of the Saints: A Journey of Peace and War in Central and North America. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1985.
• Berryman, Phillip. Liberation Theology. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.
• Berryman, Phillip. The Religious Roots of Rebellion: Christians in Central American Revolutions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1984.
• Berryman, Phillip. Our Unfinished Business: The U.S. Catholics Bishops’ Letters on Peace and the Economy. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.
• Boff, Leonardo (Philip Berryman, tr.). Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997.
• Boff, Leonardo (John Cumming, tr.). Ecology and  Liberation: A New Paradigm. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995.
• Boff, Leonardo. Saint Francis: A Model for Human Liberation. New York: Crossroad, 1984.
• Boff, Leonardo and Clodovis Boff. Introducing Liberation Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1987.
• Boff, Leonardo and Clodovis Boff. Salvation and Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1984.
• Boff, Leonardo, and Virgil Elizondo, eds. Ecology and Poverty: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor. Concilium. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995.
• Carmody, John. Ecology and Religion: Toward a New Christian Theology of Nature. New York: Paulist Press, 1983.
• Carroll, John E., Paul Brockelman, and Mary Westfall, eds. The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.
• Carroll, John E. and Albert LaChance, eds. Embracing Earth: Catholic Approaches to Ecology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994.
• Coles, Robert. A Spectacle Unto the World: The Catholic Worker Movement. New York: Viking, 1973.
• Coles, Robert. Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987.
• Cornell, Thomas C. and James H. Forest, eds. A Penny a Copy: Readings from the Catholic Worker. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
• Coy, Patrick G., ed. A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988.
• Crossan, John Dominic. God & Empire: Jesus against Rome, Then and Now. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
• Curle, Adam. True Justice: Quaker Peacemakers and Peacemaking. London: Swathmore, 1981.
• Day, Dorothy (Robert Ellsberg, ed.). Selected Writings. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992.
• Eaton, Heather. Introducing EcoFeminist Theologies. New York: T&T Clark, 2005.
• Dombrowski, Daniel. Christian Pacifism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. 
• Douglass, James W. The Nonviolent Cross: A Theology of Revolution and Peace. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
• Douglass, James W. Resistance and Contemplation: The Way of Liberation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.
• Ellis, Marc. A Year at the Catholic Worker. New York: Paulist Press, 1979.
• Ellis, Marc. Peter Maurin: Prophet in the Twentieth Century. New York: Paulist Press, 1981.
• Ellsberg, Robert, ed. By Little and By Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
• Ferm, Deane William. Third World Liberation Theologies: A Reader. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986.
• Fox, Matthew. The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance. San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row, 1988.
• Gremillion, Joseph, ed. The Gospel of Peace and Justice: Catholic Social Teaching since Pope John. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1976.
• Gutiérrez, Gustavo. A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1973.
• Hart, John. Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
• Hauerwas, Stanley. The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.
• Hauerwas, Stanley. Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2004.
• Jenkins, Willis. Theologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. (James M. Washington, ed.). A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1986.
• Kosek, Joseph Kip. Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
• Lernoux, Penny. Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America—the Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy. New York: Penguin, 1982.
• Linzey, Andrew. Animal Theology. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
• Long, Michael G., ed. Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011.
• Merton, Thomas. The Nonviolent Alternative. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
• Musto, Ronald G. The Catholic Peace Tradition. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986.
• O’Connor, June. The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day: A Feminist Perspective. New York: Crossroad, 1991.
• Piehl, Mel. Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker Movement and the Origins of Catholic Radicalism in America. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1982.
• Roberts, Nancy L. Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1984.
• Tolstoy, Leo. The Law of Violence and the Law of Love. Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984.
• Tolstoy, Leo. Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publ., 1987.
• Tutu, Desmond. Hope and Suffering. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1984.
• Wallis, Jim. Peacemakers: Christian Voices from the New Abolitionist Movement. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
• Wills, Garry. What the Gospels Meant. New York: Penguin, 2008.
• Wink, Walter, ed. Peace is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000.
• Yoder, John Howard. The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2009.

Image: From the Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Comments

[Steve Shiffrin]

Looks like a terrific conference. I would be tempted to cough up the money for it, but I think I will be in LA during the conference. Thanks for the bibliography.