Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Transformations in Religions and Societies

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii
 Practical Spirituality and Human Development: An Introduction and an Invitation  (Ananta Kumar Giri)....Pages 1-9
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 The Calling of Practical Spirituality  (Ananta Kumar Giri)....Pages 13-29
 What It Means to Be Religious?  (Ashgar Ali Engineer)....Pages 31-33
 Practical Spirituality: Human Beings Evolving into a Higher Level of Communion and Ethical Relation with One Another  (Janine Joyce)....Pages 35-51
 Critical Spirituality: Towards a Revitalised Humanity  (Marcus Bussey)....Pages 53-61
 Practices of Nontheistic Spirituality  (Peter Heehs)....Pages 63-80
 The Ashram as a Secular Place: An Understanding of the Human as a Spiritual Place  (Jyoti Sahi)....Pages 81-96
 There Is No Path: And You Are on It—Searching for the Self in Starting from Zero  (Hazen Robert Walker)....Pages 97-108
 Life Is Story: Tales and Journeys in Practical Spirituality in the Aesthetic Plasma of Story in the Lila  (Barbara A. Amodio)....Pages 109-135
 Creative Nonfiction Is Everything: Postmodernism, Groundlessness, and the Dual Portrait  (Elizabeth S. Gunn)....Pages 137-153
 Concrete and Abstract Realities  (Henk de Weijer)....Pages 155-177
 Divine Path of Humanity: Co-creating “In the Image of God”  (Nina Goncharova)....Pages 179-186
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 Brahman and Karman: The Theory of Institutional Action in the Bhagavadgītā  (Binod Kumar Agarwala)....Pages 189-215
 Practical Spirituality: Judaic and Multi-faith Practices of Transformations  (Rabbi Pamela Frydman)....Pages 217-235
 Practical Spirituality and the Desert Fathers  (Shlomit C. Schuster)....Pages 237-256
 Mysticism, Sufism, and Practical Spirituality  (Muhammad Maroof Shah)....Pages 257-276
 Quaker Process as Practical Spirituality for the Anthropocene Age  (Sara J. Wolcott)....Pages 277-292
 Paganism as Practical Spirituality  (Melinda Reidinger)....Pages 293-313
 Beyond Self to Society and Sustainability: Lesson in Practical Spirituality from Sikhism  (Karminder Ghuman, Mohinder Pal Singh)....Pages 315-325
 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  (Julie Mazzarella Geredien)....Pages 327-359
 Tolstoy and Practical Spirituality  (Christian Bartolf)....Pages 361-369
 Discovering Reality as Old as the Hills Assisted with Gandhi’s Light: Some Notes on Practical Spirituality and Human Development  (Bernard “Bernie” Meyer)....Pages 371-384
 Building a Peaceful World and the Calling of Practical Spirituality: Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer  (Predrag Cicovacki)....Pages 385-406
 Falling Together: Practical Spirituality in an Impractical World  (Paul Schwartzentruber)....Pages 407-434
 Thomas Berry: A New Cosmology and Practical Spirituality  (Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim)....Pages 435-443
 Mysticism, Practical Spirituality, and Hospitality: Walking and Meditating with Jacques Derrida  (Nishant Alphonse Irudayadason)....Pages 445-459
 Afterword: Worlds of Mindful Practices  (Piet Strydom)....Pages 461-475
Back Matter ....Pages 477-483