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'''Religious Socialism''' is the publication of the Religious Commission of [[Democratic Socialists of America]].
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'''Religious Socialism''' is the publication of the [[Religion and Socialism Commission of Democratic Socialists of America]].
  
==DSA's Religion and Socialism Commission==
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==History==
Religious types continued to meet informally at conventions of the [[Socialist Party USA]] and [[Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee]]. But it wasn't until 1977 when delegates to the DSOC
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convention in Chicago met and organized a Religion & Socialism Committee (later Commission) and decided to publish Religious Socialism.
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The original [[Religious Socialism]] was founded by [[John Cort]], a long time Christian Socialist writer and activist as well as co-chair of the Religion and Socialism Commission of [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA). The publication was originally structured as a printed newsletter in 1977 and was in circulation for more than thirty years.
  
Among early co-editors and contributors were [[Harvey Cox]], [[Cornel West]], [[Peter Steinfels]], [[Jim Wallace]], Sister [[Mary Emil Penet]], [[Maxine Phillips]],    [[Rosemary Ruether]], [[Arthur Waskow]],
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In 2015, the new [[Religious Socialism]] is a work in progress. We invite you to join us in making it useful both to people of faith within DSA and to the wider religious left. <ref>[http://www.religioussocialism.org/about Religious Socialism, about, accessed July 6, 2015]</ref>
[[Joe Holland]], [[Jim Adams]], and [[Gary Dorrien]]. In one  three-way
 
exchange, Mike Harrington, Rosemary
 
Ruether and the famous labor priest
 
Monsignor George Higgins sparred
 
over Mike's claim that "the political
 
and sodalJudeo-Christian God of the
 
West is dying"; Rosemary's claim that
 
Mike did not appreciate the vitality of
 
liberation Christianity in Poland and
 
among the Sandinistas in Nicaragua;
 
and Msgr. Higgins's claim that the
 
Sandinistas were not all that great or
 
that Brazilian bishops did not fit
 
Rosemary's dismissal of the institutional
 
church in Latin America. That
 
same year Maxine Phillips, then organizational
 
director of DSA, organized
 
a successful Religion & Socialism conference
 
in a Catholic retreat center.
 
Most of those listed above spoke
 
there, plus Dorothee Soelle, the German
 
poet/theologian. About 140 attended,
 
including a sizable Jewish contingent
 
attracted by Arthur Waskow
 
There was high enthusiasm.
 
  
<ref>Dem. Left Millennium issue, part 2, 1999, page 35</ref>
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==Personnel==
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'''Editorial group'''
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*[[Maxine Phillips]]
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*Rev. [[Lara Hoke]]
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*[[Elliot Ratzman]]
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*[[Nick Reynolds]]
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*[[David Wheeler-Reed]]
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*Rev. [[Andrew Wilkes]]
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'''Contributing editors'''
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*[[Alex Caring-Lobel]]
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*[[Gary Dorrien]]
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*[[Rannfrid Thelle]]
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*Rev. [[Lawrence Ware]]
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*Dr. [[Cornel West]]<ref>[http://www.religioussocialism.org/about Religious Socialism, about, accessed July 6, 2015]</ref>
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==References==
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{{reflist|2}}
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[[Category:Democratic Socialists of America]]
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[[category:Religious Socialism]]

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Religious Socialism is the publication of the Religion and Socialism Commission of Democratic Socialists of America.

History

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The original Religious Socialism was founded by John Cort, a long time Christian Socialist writer and activist as well as co-chair of the Religion and Socialism Commission of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The publication was originally structured as a printed newsletter in 1977 and was in circulation for more than thirty years.

In 2015, the new Religious Socialism is a work in progress. We invite you to join us in making it useful both to people of faith within DSA and to the wider religious left. [1]

Personnel

Editorial group

Contributing editors

References

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