Editors:
- Describes contemporary movements of practical global spirituality
- Considers the rise of religion in politics and the public sphere
- Opens new pathways of exploration and action for both scholarship and discourse for scholars across religious studies, cultural studies and development studies
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Practical Spirituality: Understanding New Modes of Thinking and Transformative Practice
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Front Matter
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Practical Spirituality and Transformation of Religions and Societies
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- Practical Spirituality and Human Development
- Social Transformations and Alternative Visions
- Planetary Realisation
- Religion in the Public Sphere
- Humanity and Philanthropy
- Contemporary Violence and Religious Fundamentalism
- The Post Secular World
- Movements of Practical Spirituality in the Modern World
- religion and society
Editors and Affiliations
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Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India
Ananta Kumar Giri
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Spirituality and Human Development
Book Subtitle: Transformations in Religions and Societies
Editors: Ananta Kumar Giri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0803-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0802-4Published: 12 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4505-0Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0803-1Published: 28 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 483
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Society, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, general, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary