CONTENTS
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Foreword by Dr. Robert Coles
A Note from the Editors
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Ira Rifkin
1. THEY SHOOK THINGS UP
Chögyam Trungpa
Mary Daly
Mary Baker Eddy
Robert Funk
G. I. Gurdjieff
Aimee Semple McPherson
Elijah Muhammad
Bhaktivedanta Prabuphada
Bertrand Russell
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
William J. Seymour
Shirdi Sai Baba
Starhawk
Desmond Tutu
2. THEY BORE WITNESS WITH THEIR LIVES
‘Abdu’l Bahá
Daniel Berrigan
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Mahatma Gandhi
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oscar Romero
Malcolm X
3. THEIR PRESENCE CHANGED THE WORLD
Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
Billy Graham
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Pope John XXIII
Pope John Paul II
Ram Dass
Rabindranath Tagore
Vivekananda
4. THEY MADE INTELLECT A SPIRITUAL FORCE
Carl Gustav Jung
Hans Küng
Abraham Maslow
Reinhold Niebuhr
Alexander Schmemann
Joseph Soloveitchik
Paul Tillich
Evelyn Underhill
Ken Wilber
5. THEY CHANGED THE WORLD BY WRITING
Thomas Berry
Martin Buber
Joseph Campbell
Mircea Eliade
Abraham Isaac Kook
C. S. Lewis
Huston Smith
D. T. Suzuki
Simone Weil
6. THEY SHOWED US LOVE IN ACTION
Dorothy Day
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Maha Ghosananda
Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas
Mother Teresa
Walter Rauschenbusch
Albert Schweitzer
Robert Holbrook Smith
Thich Nhat Hanh
7. THEY BROUGHT THE TRADITIONS TOGETHER
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Black Elk
Deepak Chopra
Bede Griffiths
Hazrat Inayat Khan
J. Krishnamurti
Meher Baba
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Paramahansa Yogananda
Andrew Weil
8. THEY SPOKE FROM THE POWER OF SILENCE
Ajahn Chah
Thomas Keating
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Thomas Merton
Pema Chödrön
Ramana Maharshi
Seung Sahn
Shunryu Suzuki
About the Photographs
About the Contributors
Index
About the Editor