Practical Spirituality and Human Development Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Giri, Ananta Kumar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Ethnology.; Cultural studies.; Culture.; Religion and Society.; Cultural Anthropology.; Cultural Studies.; Sociology of Culture.
• Physical Description: XXXV, 528 p. 10 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789811336874
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-3687-4

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.