Overview
- 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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New Visions and Cultivation of Practical Spirituality and Human Development
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Front Matter
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Creative Experiments in Practical Spirituality and Human Development
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Keywords
- Practical Spirituality and Human Development
- Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures
- Contemporary Violence and Religious Fundamentalism
- Humanism and the Post Secular World
- Movements of Practical Spirituality in the Modern World
- Social Transformations and Practical Spirituality
- religion and society
About this book
This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for the generation of beauty, dignity and dialogue 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Spirituality and Human Development
Book Subtitle: Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures
Editors: Ananta Kumar Giri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3687-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3686-7Published: 25 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3687-4Published: 15 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 528
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Religion and Society, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture