Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Transformations in Religions and Societies

✍ Scribed by Ananta Kumar Giri

Publisher: Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 495
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for generation of beauty, dignity and dialogues, in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence. It examines how spirituality can contribute to human development, social transformations and planetary realizations, urging us to treat each other, and our planet, with evolutionary care and respect. Trans-disciplinary and trans-paradigmatic to its very core, this text opens new pathways of practical spirituality and humanistic action for both scholarship and discourse and offers an invaluable companion for scholars across religious studies, cultural studies and development studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii
Practical Spirituality and Human Development: An Introduction and an Invitation (Ananta Kumar Giri)....Pages 1-9
Front Matter ....Pages 11-11
The Calling of Practical Spirituality (Ananta Kumar Giri)....Pages 13-29
What It Means to Be Religious? (Ashgar Ali Engineer)....Pages 31-33
Practical Spirituality: Human Beings Evolving into a Higher Level of Communion and Ethical Relation with One Another (Janine Joyce)....Pages 35-51
Critical Spirituality: Towards a Revitalised Humanity (Marcus Bussey)....Pages 53-61
Practices of Nontheistic Spirituality (Peter Heehs)....Pages 63-80
The Ashram as a Secular Place: An Understanding of the Human as a Spiritual Place (Jyoti Sahi)....Pages 81-96
There Is No Path: And You Are on It—Searching for the Self in Starting from Zero (Hazen Robert Walker)....Pages 97-108
Life Is Story: Tales and Journeys in Practical Spirituality in the Aesthetic Plasma of Story in the Lila (Barbara A. Amodio)....Pages 109-135
Creative Nonfiction Is Everything: Postmodernism, Groundlessness, and the Dual Portrait (Elizabeth S. Gunn)....Pages 137-153
Concrete and Abstract Realities (Henk de Weijer)....Pages 155-177
Divine Path of Humanity: Co-creating “In the Image of God” (Nina Goncharova)....Pages 179-186
Front Matter ....Pages 187-187
Brahman and Karman: The Theory of Institutional Action in the Bhagavadgītā (Binod Kumar Agarwala)....Pages 189-215
Practical Spirituality: Judaic and Multi-faith Practices of Transformations (Rabbi Pamela Frydman)....Pages 217-235
Practical Spirituality and the Desert Fathers (Shlomit C. Schuster)....Pages 237-256
Mysticism, Sufism, and Practical Spirituality (Muhammad Maroof Shah)....Pages 257-276
Quaker Process as Practical Spirituality for the Anthropocene Age (Sara J. Wolcott)....Pages 277-292
Paganism as Practical Spirituality (Melinda Reidinger)....Pages 293-313
Beyond Self to Society and Sustainability: Lesson in Practical Spirituality from Sikhism (Karminder Ghuman, Mohinder Pal Singh)....Pages 315-325
Practical Spirituality and the Transformation of Political Power: The Great Law of Peace and the Influence of Iroquois Women and Policies on U.S. Women Suffragists (Julie Mazzarella Geredien)....Pages 327-359
Tolstoy and Practical Spirituality (Christian Bartolf)....Pages 361-369
Discovering Reality as Old as the Hills Assisted with Gandhi’s Light: Some Notes on Practical Spirituality and Human Development (Bernard “Bernie” Meyer)....Pages 371-384
Building a Peaceful World and the Calling of Practical Spirituality: Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer (Predrag Cicovacki)....Pages 385-406
Falling Together: Practical Spirituality in an Impractical World (Paul Schwartzentruber)....Pages 407-434
Thomas Berry: A New Cosmology and Practical Spirituality (Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim)....Pages 435-443
Mysticism, Practical Spirituality, and Hospitality: Walking and Meditating with Jacques Derrida (Nishant Alphonse Irudayadason)....Pages 445-459
Afterword: Worlds of Mindful Practices (Piet Strydom)....Pages 461-475
Back Matter ....Pages 477-483

✦ Subjects

Religious Studies; Religion and Society; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology, general; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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