Spirituality and Deep Connectedness (eBook)

Views on Being Fully Human

Michael C. Brannigan (Herausgeber)

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2018
156 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6593-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of essays by respected scholars and practitioners in diverse fields in academic, healthcare, social justice, and interfaith contexts addresses alternatives to the prevailing notion of spirituality as a purely private matter, and makes a case for living spiritually through deep and genuine engagement with others.

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What is spirituality? Does it enable us to be better persons? Is spirituality related to religion? These days, is it even relevant? On college campuses, does it promote student well-being? Does it further moral growth? Can spirituality make a difference in healthcare? What about social justice and service to the marginalized?This rich collection of essays by respected scholars and practitioners in diverse fields in academic, healthcare, social justice, and interfaith contexts addresses these questions in strikingly profound and meaningful ways. Their voices offer alternatives to the prevailing notion of spirituality as a purely private matter, and make a case for living spiritually through deep and genuine engagement with others, bridging our inherent and original fault-line of Self and Other. Their keen observations resuscitate the spiritual fabric of defiance against and liberation from forces of oppression which show their face not only through chronic inequities and social injustice but in consumer capitalism's grip on our souls.This volume's dispatch to our minds and hearts is timely in an age of looming cynicism, pessimism, fear, and distrust. In carving out a renewed sense of what lies at the heart of living a life of the spirit, or spirituality, it offers an antidote to our widespread hermeneutic of suspicion. None of the authors claims to encapsulate one, pure meaning of the spiritual. Yet they share one collective voice: spirituality is indeed genuine when it calls forth compassion and wears the worn and tangled face of humaneness, freeing ourselves from the prison of ego. Here we find messages of hope, much needed in a time when our society seems increasingly shadowed by dark clouds. These essays remind us of what's right in the world.

Autor

Michael C. Brannigan is Dean of Spiritual Life and the George and Jane Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Values at the College of Saint Rose.

Inhalt

Introduction: Resuscitating SpiritMichael C. Brannigan1. From the Cave to EnlightenmentRichard White2. Spirituality in Higher EducationFran Grace3. Spirituality in Healthcare: Caring for the Patient as a Unity of Mind, Body, and SpiritWayne Shelton4. The Quality of MercyDaniel K. Hall-Flavin5. Gotta Serve Somebody: Dorothy Day, Spirituality, Service, and Social JusticeFred Boehrer6. Gandhi’s Experiments in Spiritual Disciplines: Hermeneutic to Disrupt Structures of Violence and to Create Interfaith UnderstandingVeena R. Howard7. Zen: One Breath at a TimeFrank Bryce McCluskeyConclusion: Spirituality and Moral GritMichael C. Brannigan

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Co-Autor: Fred Boehrer, Michael C. Brannigan, Fran Grace, Daniel K. Hall-Flavin, Veena R. Howard, Frank Bryce McCluskey, Wayne Shelton, Richard White
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Asian philosophy • Church and Ministry • death and dying • Developmental Psychology • Dorothy Day • ethics • Health Psychology • higher education spirituality • intercultural ethics • Interfaith Studies • interfaith understanding • Liberation Theology • Mahatma Gandhi • Medical Humanities • Medicine and Humanities • Medicine and Literature • Medicine and Spirituality • Morality/Ethics • Pastoral counseling • Pastoral Formation • Plato’s Cave • Psychiatry and Spirituality • Psychology and Spirituality • religion and social justice • Social Justice • social services • Spirituality • spirituality in healthcare • volunteerism • Wellness and Holism • World religions • Zen Buddhism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6593-X / 149856593X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6593-6 / 9781498565936