Spiritual Leaders Who Changed the World : The Essential Handbook to the Past Century of Religion

Foreword by Dr. Robert Coles vii A Note from the Editors ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction by Ira Rifkin xiii 1. THEY SHOOK THINGS UP Ch gyam Trungpa 6 Mary Daly 10 Mary Baker Eddy 13 Robert Funk 16 G.I. Gurdjieff 19 Aimee Semple McPherson 22 Elijah Muhammad 25 Bhaktivedanta Prabuphada 28 Bertrand Russell 31 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi 34 William J. Seymour 37 Shirdi Sai Baba 39 Starhawk 42 Desmond Tutu 45 2. THEY BORE WITNESS WITH THEIR LIVES 'Abdu'l Bab TD> 53 Daniel Berrigan 55 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 58 Mahatma Gandhi 61 Gustavo Guti ez 65 Martin Luther King, Jr. 68 Oscar Romero 71 Malcolm X 74 3. THEIR PRESENCE CHANGED THE WORLD Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) 81 Billy Graham 84 Abraham Joshua Heschel 87 Pope John XXIII 90 Pope John Paul II 93 Ram Dass 96 Rabindranath Tagore 99 Vivekananda 102 4. THEY MADE INTELLECT A SPIRITUAL FORCE Carl Gustav Jung 110 Hans K ng 114 Abraham Maslow 117 Reinhold Niebuhr 120 Alexander Schmemann 123 Joseph Soloveitchik 125 Paul Tillich 128 Evelyn Underhill 131 Ken Wilber 134 5. THEY CHANGED THE WORLD BY WRITING Thomas Berry 142 Martin Buber 145 Joseph Campbell 148 Mircea Eliade 151 Abraham Isaac Kook 154 C.S. Lewis 157 Huston Smith 160 D.T. Suzuki 163 Simone Weil 166 6. THEY SHOWED US LOVE IN ACTION Dorothy Day 174 Catherine de Hueck Doherty 178 Maha Ghosananda 181 Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas 183 Mother Teresa 186 Walter Rauschenbusch 189 Albert Schweitzer 192 Robert Holbrook Smith 196 Thich Nhat Hanh 198 7. THEY BROUGHT THE TRADITIONS TOGETHER Bawa Muhaiyaddeen 206 Black Elk 209 Deepak Chopra 212 Bede Griffiths 215 Hazrat Inayat Khan 218 J. Krishnamurti 221 Meher Baba 224 Seyyed Hossein Nasr 228 Paramahansa Yogananda 232 Andrew Weil 235 8. THEY SPOKE FROM THE POWER OF SILENCE Ajahn Chah 242 Thomas Keating 245 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 248 Thomas Merton 252 Perna Chodron 256 Ramana Maharshi 259 Seung Sahn 262 Shunryu Suzuki 265 About the Photographs 269 About the Contributors 271 Index 273