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Resistance and Transformation: Unitarian Universalist Social Justice History
A Tapestry of Faith Program for AdultsBy Rev. Colin Bossen and Rev. Julia Hamilton
Grounded in the belief that even "failures" in our history can be instructive, this program presents the ongoing struggle of our tradition to live up to its ever-evolving ideals of social transformation. Themes include abolition, peace-making, civil rights, free speech, utopianism, counter-culture, the women’s movements of both 19th and 20th centuries, sexuality education, and LGBT equality.
Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Workshop 1: Introductions
- Workshop 2: Prophetic, Parallel, and Institutional
- Workshop 3: The Response to Slavery
- Workshop 4: The Nineteenth Century Women's Peace Movement
- Workshop 5: Just War, Pacifism, and Peacemaking
- Workshop 6: Religious Freedom on the Margins of Empire
- Workshop 7: Utopianism
- Workshop 8: Counter-Culture
- Workshop 9: Free Speech
- Workshop 10: Taking Politics Public
- Workshop 11: Civil Rights
- Workshop 12: Responding to Calls for Black Empowerment
- Workshop 13: The Women's Movement
- Workshop 14: Sexuality Education as a Justice Issue
- Workshop 15: Beyond Binaries – The Struggle for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equality
- Workshop 16: Is There More?
- List of Stories
- List of Handouts
- List of Leader Resources
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Last updated on Thursday, October 27, 2011.
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