Practical Spirituality And Human Development

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811308031

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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.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811336874

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Practical Spirituality and Human Development by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

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.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003814993

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Cultivating Integral Development by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book cultivates visions and practices of integral development of the self, society, and the world. It builds upon deconstructions of development discourse and practice and strives to reconstruct and reconstitutes it as integral development. It addresses entrenched dualisms in development studies and practices such as between the self and the other, the providers of development and its recipients, materialism, and spirituality, and cultivates pathways of integral development. The book explores the many challenges facing development studies and practice such as poverty, creativity, political economy, moral economy, leadership, sustainable development, and evolutionary flourishing. It also opens the discourse and practice of development to cross-cultural dialogues by undertaking discussions between Euro-centric approaches to development and other visions and practices of development such as Purusartha, Swadhyaya, Sarvodaya, integral yoga, and Lokasasamgraha from Indic traditions. Drawing on multiple cultural and philosophical resources and traditions, Cultivating Integral Development is a pioneering work and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and actors of development studies, political science, and philosophy as well as concerned human beings around the world.

Author : Amar KJR Nayak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030003562

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Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems by Amar KJR Nayak Pdf

This book presents five critical dimensions on relationships, institutions, produc-tion, organisation, and governance from design and systems perspectives for thesystematic transition of unstable and vulnerable communities across the world tosustainable community systems.• The first section discusses features of relationships and processes to deepencooperation and trust within a community.• The second section examines institutions within and outside a district tofoster synergy across institutions within a district and to minimise negativeexternalities on local communities within a district.• The third section deals with food production systems that are nature-friendly, resilient, efficient and sustainable.• The fourth section discusses the design of producer organisations that cangraduate to become sustainable community enterprise systems.• The fifth section focuses on community governance that can facilitatedecentralised, participatory, transparent and democratic local governancesystems. This book• offers a fresh perspective on design thinking for optimising internal designconsistencies.• provides a systems perspective on building sustainable community systemsat the lowest governance unit in different countries, such as Ward/GramPanchayat/Panchayat Council/Gewong/Union Council/GN.• gives insights into design & systems perspectives towards buildingsustainable community systems within a district of any country across the/divworld.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811571022

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Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book explores border crossing among pragmatism, spirituality and society. It opens up American pragmatism to dialogues with pragmatism and spiritual quest from other traditions such as India and China thus making contemporary pragmatism a part of much needed planetary conversations. It cultivates new visions and practices of spiritual pragmatism building upon the seminal works of Charles Sanders Pierce, William James, Sri Aurobindo, John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Mahatma Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Luce Irigaray which can help us rethink and transform conventional conceptions and constructions of practice, pragmatism, language, religion, politics, society, culture and democracy and create new relationships of pragmatism, spirituality and society.

Author : Bahram Elahi, MD
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781948626620

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Fundamentals of the Process of Spiritual Perfection by Bahram Elahi, MD Pdf

Written as a concise handbook, this Practical Guide presents a novel paradigm for addressing the enduring questions of our existence, while providing a roadmap to the rational pursuit of spirituality in contemporary life. Approaching our spiritual development as one would any experimental science, Bahram Elahi, MD, describes the nature of the human soul, or self, through a series of original diagrams and functional analogies to medicine, psychology, and physics. In so doing, he introduces a new medicine of the soul that not only establishes how to nourish and develop the soul through the practice of correct divine and ethical principles, but also how to diagnose and treat its various ailments. Explaining the purpose of our presence on earth as the completion of the first stage in our spiritual development, he summarizes this fundamental work in three main points: examining and mending one’s faith, sufficiently developing one’s sound reason, and cultivating one’s humanity. Ultimately, this timely Practical Guide offers readers of all backgrounds an accessible roadmap to our spiritual journey that is adapted to life in modern society.

Author : Keith Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Reincarnation
ISBN : 0995105928

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Practical Spirituality by Keith Hill Pdf

Practical Spirituality is the second in a series of channelled books that offer a psychospiritual approach to inner development. Key concepts include: How core disposition gives you a unique identity ; What was involved when you decided to be born into your current life ; The purposes of and differences between life plan and life goal ; Human identity as a complex consisting of five layers ; The creation, purpose and resolving of karmic relationships ; How life lessons are crucial for inner development ; Why you need to master the art of incarnation and how to do so.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri,Su-Chen Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811906848

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Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan by Ananta Kumar Giri,Su-Chen Wu Pdf

The book presents aspects of cross-currents of theorizing of self, culture and society in the contemporary Taiwan. Social theorizing has been addressed critically, reflectively and creatively by the philosophical, religious, psychological and literary traditions of one of the world’s great civilizations Theorizing is a dynamic movement of self, culture, society and the world as it is related to our actions, reflections, meditations to understand the world more meaningfully and holistically as well as to transform it. But much of social theorizing in the modern world is primarily Euro-American and despite the socalled globalization of knowledge, this condition of one-sided Euro-American valorization of knowledge and neglect of others continues unabated. There is very little attention to theorizing about the human condition emerging from other parts of the world such as Taiwan and its global implication. This book transforms this condition by mapping the field of theorizing in a wider spectrum of philosophy, psychology, religions, social sciences and humanities in contemporary Taiwan.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811571220

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Roots, Routes and a New Awakening by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism. The book draws upon multiple philosophical and spiritual traditions of the world such as Siva Tantra, Buddhist phenomenology and Peircean Semiotics and discusses the works of Ibn-Arabi, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Raimon Panikkar,among others.The book is transdiscipinary building on creative thinking from philosophy, anthropology, political studies and literature. It is a unique contribution for forging a new relationship between roots and routes in our contemporary fragile and complex world.

Author : Inocent Moyo,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000917277

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life by Inocent Moyo,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times will be thought of in terms of before and after the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore the question of the appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet Earth, and a post–COVID-19 future requires a fundamental transformation of the present economic, political, and social conditions. Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19 pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global politics, human geography, migration studies, development studies, international studies, international relations, and political science.

Author : Eugene C. Roehlkepartain
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761930787

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The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence by Eugene C. Roehlkepartain Pdf

This Handbook draws together leading social scientists in the world from multiple disciplines to articulate what is known and needs to be known about spiritual development in childhood and adolescence.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789811571183

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Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

The book discusses how we can cross-fertilize relationship between roots and routes with and beyond the logic of closure, monological assertions and violence. The book draws upon multiple philosophical, historical, religious and spiritual traditions of the world to rethink our conceptions and productions of identity as well as our conventional understanding of roots and routes. The book particularly explores the vision and practice of creativity, socio-cultural regeneration and planetary realizations to cultivate new pathways of identity realization and new relationship between identities and differences in our fragile world today. Trans-disciplinary in engagement and trans-civilizational in its dialogical pathway, the book is a unique contribution to our contemporary scholarship about ethnicity, identity, social creativity, cultural regeneration and planetary realizations.

Author : Lee L. Jampolsky
Publisher : Celestial Arts
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307794987

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Walking Through Walls by Lee L. Jampolsky Pdf

WALKING THROUGH WALLS is a no-nonsense handbook for the spiritual seeker with little time for a lengthy philosophical treatise-and even less energy for a "taking a lifetime for enlightenment" self-help book. Psychologist and author Lee Jampolsky offers an eight-week course that gets right down to the business of accelerating personal growth. Each week Jampolsky focuses on one of eight traits that are compatible with every great spiritual tradition: honesty, tolerance, gentleness, joy, defenselessness, generosity, patience, and open-mindedness. Cutting through the fog of typically lofty and unreachable self-help goals, WALKING THROUGH WALLS presents a realistic and attainable plan for personal development. A practical eight-week program that is broken down into lessons that incorporate eight important traits into everyday living. Each lesson is further broken down into exercises, affirmations, and meditations. Lee Jampolsky'¬?s HEALING THE ADDICTIVE MIND has sold 65,000 copies. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Bob Silber
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781412028424

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Practical Wisdom by Bob Silber Pdf

Wisdom is when we make a decision and action it from the mind and the heart working together. There is wisdom in all of us. Wisdom may be the outcome of stupidity or brilliance, ignorance or knowledge, hate or love. One can never tell from which of these fountains of human experience wisdom may flow. Each piece in this collection has been selected from literally thousands of volumes over more than fifty years of this learned man's lifetime. Some are about how to live, and others are simply beautiful to read. They are all inspiring. A few of the selections have been minimally edited for easier reading.

Author : David Lawrence Preston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Self-actualization (Psychology)
ISBN : 8129116782

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365 Steps to Practical Spirituality by David Lawrence Preston Pdf