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  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 201/.73
    書名/作者: Spirituality and sustainable development // Rohana Ulluwishewa.
    作者: Ulluwishewa, Rohana,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: Sustainable development - Religious aspects.
    ISBN: 1137382767 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137382764 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references.
    內容註: What is this Book About? -- Are We Intrinsically Self-Centered and Greedy? -- Organization of the Book -- PART I: WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY? -- 1. Contemporary Views on Spirituality -- Spirituality and Religion -- Spiritual but Not Religious -- Spirituality: Scientific Perspectives -- 2. Spirituality Re-examined -- Searching Common Grounds in Different Views -- Transforming Mind, Changing Values -- 3. Spirituality: Development Perspectives -- Spirituality in Conventional Development -- Spirituality as Establishing Right Relationships -- Spirituality as Transformation of the Human Mind -- PART II: GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM FROM SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE -- 4. Identifying Global Socio-Spiritual Classes -- Worldly Happiness and Spiritual Happiness -- Basic Needs and Neurotic Needs -- Needs and Happiness -- Human Values, Human Virtues and Human Vices -- Happiness, Needs, Values and Power -- Towards a Socio-Spiritual Classification of People -- 5. Global Economic System as a Product of Greedy Mind -- Characteristics of Global Socio-Spiritual Classes -- The Giant Fruit Tree in an Isolated Island: An Analogy -- Self-Centeredness, Greed and Class Relations -- 6. Global Economic System and Conventional Development -- Origin and characteristics of conventional development -- Self-centeredness and greed in conventional development: theory and practice -- Spirituality and Conventional Development: Contradictions -- PART III: DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT SPIRITUALITY -- 7. Poverty and Inequality -- Two forms of development -- Poverty and Inequality in Intentional Development -- Poverty and Inequality in Immanent Development -- 8. Environmental Unsustainability -- Self-Centeredness and Unsustainability -- Self-Centredness, Private Consumption and Unsustainability -- Spirituality as a Guide to Sustainable Consumption -- 9. Unhappiness -- Self-Centeredness, Happiness, and Unhappiness -- Development and Unhappiness -- If Not Material Wealth, What Makes Us Happy? -- Two Kinds of Happiness -- PART IV: TOWARDS A SPIRITUALITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT -- 10. Spiritual Growth and Economic Growth: Conflict or Synergy? -- Spiritual Growth -- Are Spiritual Growth and Economic Growth Mutually Beneficial? -- Spiritual Growth and Optimum Economic Growth -- 11. Spiritualizing the Global Economic System -- Towards a Form of Development Motivated by Love -- Is it Already Underway? -- Happiness Orientation in Spirituality-Based Development -- 12. Towards a World of Abundence, Equity, Sustainability and Happiness -- First the Problem of Affluence, then the Problem of Poverty -- Immusizing the Non-Affluent Against Affluenza -- Promoting Selfless Service as Development -- Integrating Spirituality into Formal Education -- Re-Spiritualizing Religion -- Scientific Research on Spirituality -- Spiritually Oriented Personal Services -- Integrating Spirituality into Development Studies -- Is Spirituality-Based Development Possible? -- Epilogue: Changing Ourselves to Change the World.
    摘要、提要註: In spite of heavy investments, development has failed to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve environmental sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity. In his revolutionary book, Rohana Ulluwishewa shows that the root-cause of the failure lies within us. It is our self-centeredness and greed for material wealth. Conventional development ignores this truth, and attempts to change almost everything in the external world except ourselves. Of course, the changes it brings to the external world generate more material wealth, but as the selfishness within us remains unchanged, we fail to generate wealth in an environmentally sustainable manner, to distribute the wealth equally and to deliver happiness to all. While all great religions advocate the reduction of our selfishness, modern scientific evidence suggest that it is a temporary sign of our spiritual underdevelopment. As we develop spiritually, it is replaced by selfless love. Then spontaneously emerge a form of development driven by love which can eliminate poverty and inequality, achieve environmental sustainability and deliver happiness to all. This book concludes with policy measures required to promote the new form of development.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137382764
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