Dancing in God's Earthquake: The Coming Transformation of Religion

by Arthur Ocean Waskow

Overview

This book reflects on the role of "earthquakes"-literal and metaphorical: times like present when history trembles beneath our feet. Such times may overturn empires, structures of power, and the stability of our personal lives. But they may also become the fertile ground from which renewal and new life come, especially if we can learn to "dance"-to imagine and live out new possibilities-in the midst of this disruption.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626984004
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	10/14/2020
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, PhD, founded and directs The Shalom Center-a prophetic-activist voice in Jewish, multireligious, and American life. He has written many books, including the original Freedom Seder, Godwrestling-Round 2, and Seasons of Our Joy.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader: Coronavirus: The Eleventh Plague ix

An Overture to the Dance xvii

1 Healing the Perennial Sin of Eden 1

2 The World beyond Subjugating Women 22

3 The Real Sin of Sodom and the Sin of Lot-Today 42

4 Hiding in the Holy: Love, Awe, or Idolatry? 58

5 Renaming God: Toward an Ecological Worldview 77

6 Subversive Prayer: The Leopard in the Liturgy 93

7 God's Image in the Human Jigsaw Puzzle 117

8 Toward Justice: Brothers' War and Reconciliation 131

9 The Sin of Economic Injustice, the Blessing of a Pulsating Economy 141

10 Warlike Kings: A Blessing or a Sin? 155

11 Two Biblical Genocides: Were Both Sins? 172

Coda to the Dance: Eden Once Again? 187

Forethought in the Form of an Afterword 195