Practical spirituality and human development

an introduction and an invitation

Ananta K. Giri

1-9

The calling of practical spirituality

Ananta K. Giri

13-29

What it means to be religious?

Engineer

31-33

Practical spirituality

human beings evolving into a higher level of communion and ethical relation with one another

Janine Joyce

35-51

Critical spirituality

towards a revitalised humanity

Marcus Bussey

53-61

Practices of nontheistic spirituality

Peter Heehs

63-80

The ashram as a secular place

an understanding of the human as a spiritual place

Jyoti Sahi

81-96

There is no path

and you are on it—searching for the self in starting from zero

Hazen Robert Walker

97-108

Life is story

tales and journeys in practical spirituality in the aesthetic plasma of story in the lila

Barbara A. Amodio

109-135

Creative nonfiction is everything

postmodernism, groundlessness, and the dual portrait

Elizabeth S. Gunn

137-153

Concrete and abstract realities

Henk de Weijer

155-177

Divine path of humanity

co-creating "in the image of God"

Nina Goncharova

179-186

Brahman and karman

the theory of institutional action in the bhagavadgītā

Agarwala

189-215

Practical spirituality

judaic and multi-faith practices of transformations

Pamela Frydman

217-235

Practical spirituality and the desert fathers

Schuster

237-256

Mysticism, sufism, and practical spirituality

Muhammad Maroof Shah

257-276

Quaker process as practical spirituality for the anthropocene age

Sara J. Wolcott

277-292

Paganism as practical spirituality

Melinda Reidinger

293-313

Beyond self to society and sustainability

lesson in practical spirituality from sikhism

Karminder Ghuman, Mohinder Pal Singh

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

327-359

Tolstoy and practical spirituality

Christian Bartolf

361-369

Discovering reality as old as the hills assisted with Gandhi's light

some notes on practical spirituality and human development

Bernard Meyer

371-384

Building a peaceful world and the calling of practical spirituality

Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer

Predrag Cicovacki

385-406

Falling together

practical spirituality in an impractical world

Paul Schwartzentruber

407-434

Thomas Berry

a new cosmology and practical spirituality

Mary E. Tucker, John Grim

435-443

Mysticism, practical spirituality, and hospitality

walking and meditating with Jacques Derrida

Irudayadason

445-459

Afterword

worlds of mindful practices

Piet Strydom

461-475