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Professor Fran Quigley’s latest book, Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better World, has been released by Orbis Books. The work examines the link between faith traditions and socialism and public good.

Many of the people in the book are Christian, which is the predominant faith in the United States, but Professor Quigley also includes other faith traditions who also advocate for socialism. “Socialism allows people of all major religions to fulfill their shared spiritual mandates to tangibly love and care for their sisters and brothers,” he writes in the book’s introduction. “In return, religion provides socialism with the antidote to the poison pill that has killed off generations of socialist political movements.” Advocates point to universal health care, progressive taxation, and comprehensive social services that assure safe housing and a minimum income common in other countries as positive outcomes of socialist influences.

Professor Quigley is a 1987 graduate of IU McKinney, where he is a Clinical Professor of Law and teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. Clinic students advocate for the rights of the poor, with a focus on individual and systemic barriers to accessing healthcare and the social determinants of health. He is the author of several academic journal articles on social justice and human rights, multiple mass media articles and columns, and five books including this most recent work. Prior to his work at the law school, he served as the first Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Julia Carson and as the executive director of ACLU of Indiana.  He edits the newsletter Faith in Healthcare and contributes to and helps edit the publications of the Religious Socialism working group of the Democratic Socialists of America.