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Spiritual Paths to An Ethical & Ecological Global Civilization - Reading the Signs of the Times with Buddhists, Christians, & Muslims (Paperback)
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Spiritual Paths to An Ethical & Ecological Global Civilization - Reading the Signs of the Times with Buddhists, Christians, & Muslims (Paperback)
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In this visionary book, John Raymaker and Gerald Grudzen with Joe
Holland - three pioneering scholars of religion, philosophy, and
culture - first try to read those contemporary signs of the times
which indicate that late modern civilization and our entire planet
Earth are "on the brink." They do this primarily in relation to the
interrelated global financial-ecological crisis. They frame their
reading of the signs of the times within the emerging and
authentically postmodern "New Cosmology," which sees evo- lution as
a co-creative artistic-mystical process, in contrast to the modern
secularist- determinist cosmology which sees the Universe as
atomistic and mechanical, and as devoid of spiritual meaning or
purpose. Seeking a healing response to the late modern global
financial-ecological crisis of modernity, their book next probes
classical expressions of the "wisdom of the ages," as found in the
spiritual and ethical writings of select mystical thinkers from
Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. This probing searches for an
inclusive global spirituality that will resonate with creative
ecological-mystical cosmology presently arising within the
frontiers of philosophy and science. Their book then tries to link
that global spirituality to the search for a healing global ethics.
In that application, they criticize certain late modern and
hypermodern forms of thought (often falsely claiming to be
"postmodern"), which fail to provide true solu- tions for the late
modern social-ecological breakdown. A true global ethics, their
book argues, needs to be rooted in the deep wisdom of all the great
spiritual traditions of the human family, including the rich
spiritualities of the natural world found in humanity's ancient
"indigenous" traditions. Lastly, their book explores how global
spirituality and global ethics need to take expres- sion in a
regenerative global civilization. This civilization, the book
argues, would re- ject the late modern "free-market" model of
globalization, which is uprooting humans from their natural
communities and from the entire natural world. Instead, it would
network and defend the global spiritual solidarity of rooted
communities, and protect workers, families, and bioregions on which
they depend.
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