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Spiritual capital : spirituality in practice in Christian perspective / edited by Michael O'Sullivan and Bernadette Flanagan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (227 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781409427742
  • 1409427749
  • 1409427722
  • 9781409427728
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spiritual Capital : Spirituality in Practice in Christian Perspective.DDC classification:
  • 303.372
LOC classification:
  • BJ1589
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1Exploring Spiritual Capital: Resource for an Uncertain Future?; 2A Secular Response to Social Solidarity? Social Capital, Religion and the Implications for Social Policy; 3 Spiritual Capital and the Turn to Spirituality; 4The Ecological Crisis and Spiritual Capital; 5Frederick Ozanam's Spiritual Capital and Today's Consumer Society; 6Spiritual Capital in a Competitive Workplace; 7Faith-Based Organisations and the Work of International Development; 8The Spiritual Dimension to Bereavement through Suicide.
9Spiritual Capital at Work in the Shadows10Pilgrimage and Spiritual Capital; 11Gardening as a Source of Spiritual Capital; 12Poem-Making, Creativity and Meditative Practice; 13Leonard Cohen, Spiritual Capital and Postmodern Seekers.
Summary: Spiritual Capital seeks to re-focus discussion on core social values, on individuals' value systems and the internal dynamics that impel human beings to live by truth, goodness and love. This book defines, refines and disseminates the concept of spiritual capital. Contributions by practitioner-scholars in applied spirituality, who have practical experience of spiritual capital at work in diverse human situations, provide accounts of concrete expressions of spiritual capital and create an interdisciplinary discussion between spirituality practitioners, artists, ecologists, sociologists and others on the frontiers of change in contemporary culture.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)473668

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1Exploring Spiritual Capital: Resource for an Uncertain Future?; 2A Secular Response to Social Solidarity? Social Capital, Religion and the Implications for Social Policy; 3 Spiritual Capital and the Turn to Spirituality; 4The Ecological Crisis and Spiritual Capital; 5Frederick Ozanam's Spiritual Capital and Today's Consumer Society; 6Spiritual Capital in a Competitive Workplace; 7Faith-Based Organisations and the Work of International Development; 8The Spiritual Dimension to Bereavement through Suicide.

9Spiritual Capital at Work in the Shadows10Pilgrimage and Spiritual Capital; 11Gardening as a Source of Spiritual Capital; 12Poem-Making, Creativity and Meditative Practice; 13Leonard Cohen, Spiritual Capital and Postmodern Seekers.

Spiritual Capital seeks to re-focus discussion on core social values, on individuals' value systems and the internal dynamics that impel human beings to live by truth, goodness and love. This book defines, refines and disseminates the concept of spiritual capital. Contributions by practitioner-scholars in applied spirituality, who have practical experience of spiritual capital at work in diverse human situations, provide accounts of concrete expressions of spiritual capital and create an interdisciplinary discussion between spirituality practitioners, artists, ecologists, sociologists and others on the frontiers of change in contemporary culture.

Includes index.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.