Trinity Press International Religion in a Secular City: Essays in Honor of Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox burst onto the religious-publishing scene in 1962 with his provocative book, The Secular City. His assertions about the consequences of the modern secular world for religion changed forever the way that theologians and clergy approached their tasks of God-talk in late modernity. Always prescient about the religious scene, Cox virtually predicted the "turn east" that many American religious seekers took in the late '60s and early '70s. His books on world religions (Many Mansions), Pentecostalism (Fire from Heaven), and fundamentalism and liberation theology (Religion in the Secular City) have all provided trenchant commentary on the changing face of American religion. In this exciting collection of twenty essays, Sharma and his contributors honor Cox's seminal contributions to the study of religion. The first section of the book includes essays on Cox's life and work at Harvard, where he is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, and his work as a liberation theologian in the Third World. The second section features theologians such as Leonardo Boff, James Cone, Hans Kung, Jurgen Moltmann, and Richard L. Rubenstein, who use Cox's themes of interreligious dialogue, grassroots theology, and religion and secularization as the starting points for their own essays on these themes. Contributors to the volume include: Cornel West, Harvard University; Arvind Sharma, McGill University; Robert McAfee Brown, Emeritus, Pacific School of Religion; John C. Cort, Nahant, Massachusetts; Jorge Pixley, Seminario Teologico Buatista, Managua, Nicaragua; Rodney Peterson, Boston Theological Institute; Victor Wan-Tatah, Youngstown State University; Frank D. Macchia, Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God; William Hamilton, Sarasota, Florida; Robert N. Bellah, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; Eldin Villafane, CUTEEP, Boston; Jurgen Moltmann, Tubingen; Hans Kung, Tubingen; James H. Cone, Union Theological Seminary; Leonardo Boff, Brazil; Margaret Guider, Weston Jesuit School of Theology; Arthur Green, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Satianathan Clarke, United Theological College, Bangalore; Richard L. Rubenstein, University of Bridgeport; Iain Maclean, James Madison University; William Martin, Rice University; Anne Foerst, MIT; and Elinor W. Gadon, Institute of Integral Studies. Arvind Sharma is Bicks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal and the editor of A Dome of Many Colors, published by Trinity Press International. Review "I was delighted to read this stimulating collection of essays. Harvey Cox has been one of my heroes ever since I read The Secular City as an undergraduate. These essays are masterful testimony to the numerous ways in which his work has stimulated other scholars to think widely and creatively about religion and culture." Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University--Sanford Lakoff"These essays are reflections, 'loose sallies of the mind, ' as stated in the Foreword, on Harvey Cox the man, the theologian, the cultural commentator. Reading them, one is reminded of the enormous breadth of his intellectual contributions. What comes through as well is his deep compassion, his appreciation for the experiences of ordinary people, and his unceasing engagement with the world." Wade Clark Roof, J. F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, University of California at Santa Barbara--Sanford Lakoff About the Author Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Canada.