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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice
Spiritual masters through the ages have devised methods different
than those of science for investigating the great mystery of nature
by, for example, immersing themselves in it, making use of silence,
stillness, and solitude. The scientific and spiritual quests have
been the two great quests of humanity, but somehow a feeling has
developed that science is antagonistic to spirituality. Since the
whole of reality is built up of both matter and consciousness, why
should the quest for the understanding of order in the external
world be antagonistic to the quest for the understanding of order
in the inner world of our consciousness? Science and Spirituality
for a Sustainable World brings together theories, methodologies,
new ideas, experiences, and applications emphasizing the importance
of both spirituality and skill for leadership and sustainable
management, sensitizing leaders and management practitioners toward
the spirituality-skill paradigm, skill-based leadership, and
highlighting the role of spiritual values for environmental
sustainability. Featuring a wide range of topics that focus on the
relationship between spirituality and science such as spiritual
education, management practices, and traditional wisdom, this book
is essential for researchers, academicians, administrators,
managers, professionals, policymakers, and students.
Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived, and
lived within higher education in Britain. It considers the changing
nature of university life, and the place of religion within it.
Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or affirming
orientations to religious institutions for reasons to do with
history and ethos, much western scholarship has presumed higher
education to be a strongly secularising force. This framing has
resulted in religion often being marginalised or ignored as a
cultural irrelevance by the university sector. However, recent
times have seen higher education increasingly drawn into political
discourses that problematize religion in general, and Islam in
particular, as an object of risk. Using the largest data set yet
collected in the UK, Islam on Campus explores university life and
the ways in which ideas about Islam and Muslim identities are
produced, experienced, perceived, appropriated, and objectified.
The volume considers the role universities and Muslim higher
education institutions play in the production, reinforcement, and
contestation of emerging narratives about religious difference.
This is a culturally nuanced treatment of universities as sites of
knowledge production, and contexts for the negotiation of
perspectives on culture and religion among an emerging generation.
This collaborative study demonstrates the urgent need to release
Islam from its official role as the othered, or the feared. When
universities achieve this we will be able to help students of all
affiliations and of none to be citizens of the campus in
preparation for being citizens of the world.
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