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What could it mean, in terms of strengthening multilateral
diplomacy, if the UN, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), the European Union, and other regional diplomatic
frameworks engaged more creatively with a religious perspective? In
this ground-breaking volume it is argued that international
organisations, backed by governments, can and should use their
convening power to initiate new, multi-layered frameworks of
engagement, inclusive of the representatives of religion. This can
make multilateralism more fit for purpose and have a major impact
over time on our planetary future. The book is divided into an
introduction and six chapters: Towards a culture of encounter
inclusive of the world's religious traditions Structural questions
in 21st-century diplomacy Knowing what we ought to know: the issues
that face 21st-century diplomacy Towards the global objective of a
common peace for humanity Understanding how change happens The
diplomacy of the two standards The development of new frameworks of
engagement A brief outline is offered of what an all-European
initiative - an agora for Europe - might look like if, in the
2020s, there were the political will to inaugurate a European
regional process reflecting the orientation and methodology
proposed in the book. Combining cutting-edge research and
reflection, with concrete recommendations for academics, religious
actors, policy makers, and practitioners, this concise and
accessible volume helps to build bridges between these oftentimes
separated spheres of engagement. The Open Access version of this
book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053842, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
What could it mean, in terms of strengthening multilateral
diplomacy, if the UN, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE), the European Union, and other regional diplomatic
frameworks engaged more creatively with a religious perspective? In
this ground-breaking volume it is argued that international
organisations, backed by governments, can and should use their
convening power to initiate new, multi-layered frameworks of
engagement, inclusive of the representatives of religion. This can
make multilateralism more fit for purpose and have a major impact
over time on our planetary future. The book is divided into an
introduction and six chapters: Towards a culture of encounter
inclusive of the world's religious traditions Structural questions
in 21st-century diplomacy Knowing what we ought to know: the issues
that face 21st-century diplomacy Towards the global objective of a
common peace for humanity Understanding how change happens The
diplomacy of the two standards The development of new frameworks of
engagement A brief outline is offered of what an all-European
initiative - an agora for Europe - might look like if, in the
2020s, there were the political will to inaugurate a European
regional process reflecting the orientation and methodology
proposed in the book. Combining cutting-edge research and
reflection, with concrete recommendations for academics, religious
actors, policy makers, and practitioners, this concise and
accessible volume helps to build bridges between these oftentimes
separated spheres of engagement. The Open Access version of this
book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053842, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book examines literary texts from various genres -- prose
fiction, plays, film -- in order to explore the way dark and
enlightening spiritual journeys are presented in literature.
Combining literary criticism with Jungian approaches, the analysis
focuses on well known religious, spiritual and psychological
writings, with special reference to the work of James Hillman.
Stanley Kubrick's film 'Eyes Wide Shut' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's
classic tale 'Young Goodman Brown', which present uncannily similar
stories, exemplify the book's theme: both are examples of a
"dark-side" narrative. In each case a limited, somewhat naive
protagonist goes out, at night, into the darkness (the streets of
New York in the case of Kubrick's protagonist, the New England
forest in the case of Hawthorne's) and discovers things about
himself and the world that he previously was unaware of. It is a
disturbing discovery of deep imperfection and apparent perversity
-- an encounter with what Jungian psychology dubs "the shadow". But
it is also an experience of what Christian theologian Paul Tillich
calls "depth", which he considers an experience of groundless
mystery that is no less than an encounter with whatever people
refer to when using the word "God". That a discovery of apparent
perversity may be an illuminating experience of the divine is a
paradox that lies at the heart of the mystery of each individual's
"shadow", no longer to be considered as a bundle of repressed
negativity but as a harbinger of growth and soul, a doorway to
spiritual illumination. In Shadows and Illuminations this paradox
of dark-side narratives -- that shadow is illuminative -- is
explored in relation to a variety of classic and contemporary
literary works.
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