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The Sarvodaya Movement - Holistic Development and Risk Governance in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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The Sarvodaya Movement - Holistic Development and Risk Governance in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Development
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This book provides an important case study of how local cultures,
religions and spiritualities can enhance development activities,
and provide helpful frameworks for contemporary societies facing
the pressures of neo-liberalism. It specifically traces how the
influential Sri Lankan Sarvodaya Movement has deployed concepts of
spirituality-based holistic development to help local communities
with post-tsunami reconstruction and redevelopment. Throughout, the
author provides a Three-Sphere conceptualisation of holistic
sustainable development, focused on Culture, Economics and Power,
slightly revising Sarvodaya's Three-Sphere model comprising
Spirituality, Economics and Power. The author contends that the
success of holistic development, including risk governance, is
largely contingent on an awareness of the interdependency of these
three spheres, and establishing equitable partnerships between
communities, NGOs, INGOs, States and the private sector. Overall,
this book argues that religion, spirituality and non-religious
worldviews play an important role among other resources concerned
with how to survive the pressures of neo-liberalism and
environmental risks and crises. The Sarvodaya Movement, which draws
on Buddhist concepts of spirituality, is widely acknowledged as an
important example of spirituality and community-driven development,
and as such, this book will be of interest to scholars of
Development and Humanitarian Studies, Religious Studies and South
Asian Studies.
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