A Vision of Justice: Engaging Catholic Social Teaching on the College Campus - Softcover

Susan Crawford Sullivan is associate professor of sociology at the College of the Holy Cross.  She has also been a visiting assistant professor at Harvard Divinity School.  In addition to publishing numerous journal articles, she is the author of Living Faith:  Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty (University of Chicago Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Distinguished Book Award from both the American Sociological Association (sociology of religion section) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is a member of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Peace and Justice Advisory Committee.  

Ron Pagnucco is an associate professor in the department of peace studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in Minnesota. His work has appeared in Human Rights Quarterly; Research on Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Sociological Inquiry; and Research on Democracy and Society. With Jackie Smith and Charles Chatfield, he co-edited Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity beyond the State (Syracuse University Press, 1997), and with Chris Hausmann, he guest co-edited a special issue of the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, "Peacebuilding in Africa" (2011). He is a member of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Ad Hoc Committee on Peace and Justice Education.

“[A] collection of intellectually stimulating, historically rooted, and empirically grounded essays. . . . [They] address the challenge we all face: to make CST no longer the ‘best-kept secret.’”Kathleen Maas Weigert, PhD; Carolyn Farrell, BVM Professor of Women and Leadership; Assistant to the Provost for Social Justice Initiatives; Loyola University Chicago

The second special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa had the theme: The Church in Africa in the Service of Reconciliation, Justice and Peace (October 2009). The post-synodal exhortation Africae Munus of Benedict XVI gives the way forward, namely, that Africa must be committed to the search of peace in the continent. . . . Catholic universities should be involved in Education for Peace through having visions that are informative, formative and transformative and which ensures sustainable peace and reconciliation. This requires that peace studies be mainstreamed in university curricula. The book, A Vision of Justice, comes very handy at this time when there is need to learn how others have addressed challenges facing them. The book will be an addition to the scarce resources needed in matters of justice and peace."
Fr. Peter I. Gichure, Catholic University of Eastern Africa
From the foreword of the African edition of A Vision of Justice