Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership

1. Introduction
Scott T. Allison, Craig T. Kocher, George R. Goethals

Part I. Historical Exemplars of Spiritual Leadership

2. Women’s Leadership in the Early Church: Possibilities and Pushbacks
L. Stephanie Cobb

3. Clerical Leadership in Late Antiquity: Augustine on Bishops’ Polemical and Pastoral Burdens
Peter Iver Kaufman

4. The Spiritual Leadership of Madame Guyon and Madame de Maintenon under Louis XIV
Sydney Watts

5. The President as Spiritual Leader: Pardons, Punishment, Forgiveness, Mercy, and Justice
Henry L. Chambers

6. Reconciliation and Its Failures: Reconstruction to Jim Crow
George R. Goethals

7. The Pursuit of Wonder
David D. Burhans

Part II. Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Leadership

8. Leading through Reading in Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy by Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett
Elisabeth Rose Gruner

9. Engaged Spirituality and Egalitarianism in US Social Welfare Policy
Jennifer L. Erkulwater

10. “A Change Is Gonna Come”: Spiritual Leadership for Social Change in the United States
Thad Williamson

11. Living a Life of Consequence: How Not to Chase a Fake Rabbit
Craig T. Kocher

12. Suffering and Sacrifice: Individual and Collective Benefits, and Implications for Leadership
Scott T. Allison, Gwendolyn C. Setterberg

13. Leadership, Spirituality, and Values in a Secular Age: Insights from Charles Taylor and James MacGregor Burns
Richard L. Morrill

14. Afterword
E. Bruce Heilman

Nyckelord: Religious Studies, Religion and Society, Business Strategy/Leadership, Social Aspects of Religion, Economics, general