Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Transformations in Religions and Societies 1st ed. Edition Ananta Kumar Giri

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9811308020
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9811308024
• Author(s): Ananta Kumar Giri

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 contents:

1. Practical Spirituality and Human Development: An Introduction and an Invitation
Part I. Practical Spirituality: Understanding New Modes of Thinking and Transformative Practice
2. The Calling of Practical Spirituality
3. What It Means to Be Religious?
4. Practical Spirituality: Human Beings Evolving into a Higher Level of Communion and Ethical Relation with One Another
5. Critical Spirituality: Towards a Revitalised Humanity
6. Practices of Nontheistic Spirituality
7. The Ashram as a Secular Place: An Understanding of the Human as a Spiritual Place
8. There Is No Path: And You Are on It—Searching for the Self in Starting from Zero
9. Life Is Story: Tales and Journeys in Practical Spirituality in the Aesthetic Plasma of Story in the Lila
10. Creative Nonfiction Is Everything: Postmodernism, Groundlessness, and the Dual Portrait
11. Concrete and Abstract Realities
12. Divine Path of Humanity: Co-creating “In the Image of God”
Part II. Practical Spirituality and Transformation of Religions and Societies
13. Brahman and Karman: The Theory of Institutional Action in the Bhagavadgītā
14. Practical Spirituality: Judaic and Multi-faith Practices of Transformations
15. Practical Spirituality and the Desert Fathers
16. Mysticism, Sufism, and Practical Spirituality
17. Quaker Process as Practical Spirituality for the Anthropocene Age
18. Paganism as Practical Spirituality
19. Beyond Self to Society and Sustainability: Lesson in Practical Spirituality from Sikhism
20. 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
21. Tolstoy and Practical Spirituality
22. Discovering Reality as Old as the Hills Assisted with Gandhi’s Light: Some Notes on Practical Spirituality and Human Development
23. Building a Peaceful World and the Calling of Practical Spirituality: Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer
24. Falling Together: Practical Spirituality in an Impractical World
25. Thomas Berry: A New Cosmology and Practical Spirituality
26. Mysticism, Practical Spirituality, and Hospitality: Walking and Meditating with Jacques Derrida
27. Afterword: Worlds of Mindful Practices

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