Full Description
Spiritual Capital seeks to re-focus discussion on core social values, on individuals' value systems and the internal dynamics that impel human beings to live by truth, goodness and love. This book defines, refines and disseminates the concept of spiritual capital. Contributions by practitioner-scholars in applied spirituality, who have practical experience of spiritual capital at work in diverse human situations, provide accounts of concrete expressions of spiritual capital and create an interdisciplinary discussion between spirituality practitioners, artists, ecologists, sociologists and others on the frontiers of change in contemporary culture.
Contents
List of Figures, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Exploring Spiritual Capital: Resource for an Uncertain Future?, 2 A Secular Response to Social Solidarity?: Social Capital, Religion and the Implications for Social Policy, 3 Spiritual Capital and the Turn to Spirituality, 4 T he Ecological Crisis and Spiritual Capital, 5 Frederick Ozanam's Spiritual Capital and Today's Consumer Society, 6 Spiritual Capital in a Competitive Workplace, 7 Faith-Based Organisations and the Work of International Development, 8 T he Spiritual Dimension to Bereavement through Suicide, 9 Spiritual Capital at Work in the Shadows, 10 Pilgrimage and Spiritual Capital, 11 Gardening as a Source of Spiritual Capital, 12 Poem-Making, Creativity and Meditative Practice, 13 Leonard Cohen, Spiritual Capital and Postmodern Seekers, Index
