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In Engaged Spirituality, Gregory C. Stanczak challenges this assumption, arguing that spirituality plays an important social role as well. Based on more than one hundred interviews with individuals of diverse faith traditions, the book shows how prayer, meditation, and ritual provide foundations for activism. Among the stories, a Buddhist monk in Los Angeles intimately describes the physical sensations of strength and compassion that sweep her body when she recites the Buddha’s name in times of selfless service, and a Protestant reverend explains how the calm serenity that she feels during retreats allows her to direct her multi-service agency in San Francisco to creative successes that were previously unimaginable. In an age when Madonna studies Kabbalah and the internet is bringing Buddhism to the white middle-class, it is clear that formal religious affiliations are no longer enough. Stanczak’s critical examination of spirituality provides us with a way of discussing the factors that impel individuals into social activism and forces us to rethink the question of how “religion” and “spirituality” might be defined.

Social change --- Religion and social problems --- Spirituality --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Religious aspects. --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects

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The art of living the "good life" requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom, this book provides the details, conceptual structures, and inner meanings of a number of easily accessible, everyday activities, including gardening, sport, drinking coffee, storytelling, and listening to music. It also suggests how to best engage these activities, to consecrate the ordinary in a way that points to experiential transcendence, or what the author calls "glimpsing immortality", a core component of the art of living the "good life".

Humanity. --- Religion and social problems. --- Social action. --- Social problems. --- Reform, Social --- Social reform --- Social welfare --- Social history --- Applied sociology --- Social policy --- Social problems --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Ethics --- Religious aspects

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This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy. In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.

Equality. --- Distributive justice. --- Social justice. --- Communism. --- Liberalism. --- Religion and social problems. --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Equality --- Justice --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Social justice --- Wealth --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Religious aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Communism --- Distributive justice --- Liberalism --- Religion and social problems --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Communisme --- Socialisme --- Libéralisme --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy

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This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating or for enforcing the walls around “Fortress Europe.” Religion, they argue, is radically ambiguous, simultaneously causing social conflict and social cohesion in times of turmoil. Charting the constellations, the conflicts, and the consequences of the current refugee crisis, this book thus answers the need for succinct but sustained accounts of the intersections of religion and migration.

Refugees --- Religion and social problems --- Government policy --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Religious aspects --- Religion and sociology. --- Migration. --- Cultural policy. --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Religion and Society. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- European Politics. --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Culture --- Popular culture --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Emigration and immigration. --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization

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