Restoring the Sacred Ordinary in Everyday Life
Secular and Spiritual Responses to Contemporary Crises
Restoring the Sacred Ordinary in Everyday Life
Secular and Spiritual Responses to Contemporary Crises
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Led by former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, this collection explores how the sacred can solve the competing and complex crises of the 21st century.
This timely and thought-provoking collection shows that a revaluation of broader cultural factors bound by spirituality, faith and ethics are essential in addressing the divisive politics of our time. In challenging the widespread assumptions and normative approaches to these complex and overlapping issues, a team of contributors from different disciplines argue that deeper cultural change, rather than technological and social advancement, is necessary in bringing about a just and sustainable transition.
United by the novel concept of the 'sacred ordinary' – a shared moral and imaginative ground where religious and secular perspectives meet – contributors reflect on the possibility of turning away from the dogma and creed for an everyday sacred that can be accessed by all.
Informed by current research in indigenous knowledge, theology, sociology and psychology, contributors cover an impressive breadth of contexts; from Ubuntu and Inochi creation stories to Islamic environmental ethics, and analyses of malignant leadership to tools for regenerative resistance. Together, they present a new framework for regenerative thought that promises to unite our ailing cultural and political worlds.
This is a ground-breaking contribution to post-secular life, arguing for spirituality's role in creating greater equality, understanding, and justice
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Table of Contents
1. The Sacred and the Secular, Mary McAleese (twice former President of Ireland)
2. Religion in Transformation, Ian Hughes (University College Cork, Ireland), Ariel Hernandez (German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany), Bob Grumiau (University College Cork, Ireland), Maggie O'Neill (University College Cork, Ireland) and Edmond Byrne (University College Cork, Ireland)
3. The Sacred Ordinary: Some Structured Thoughts, Andrej Zwitter (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) and Richard Hecht (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
4. Origin Stories: Destruction and Restoration in Genesis, Miguel Diaz (Loyola University Chicago, USA and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See)
5. Ubuntu as Everyday Divinity: An Indigenous Way of Seeing the Sacred in Everyone and Everything, Wakanyi Hoffman (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
6. A Secular Narrative of Evil: Evil as Envy of Love, Richard Wood (Author and private scholar, clinical psychologist Ontario, Canada)
7. Resonant Hope[s]: Poesis and Possibilities Beyond the Anthropocene, Gerard Mullally (University College Cork, Ireland)
8. Green Lines and Red Lines: Environmental Justice and Political Repression in Contemporary Iran, Roja Fazaeli (Centre for Law, Religion and Society, University of Galway, Ireland)
9. Moral Imagination and the Sacred Ordinary, Phoebe Tickell (Moral Imaginations)
10. Inochi: A Japanese Path to the Sacred Ordinary, Takuo Dome (Founder Inochi Forum)
11. Conclusion, Mary McAleese (twice former President of Ireland)
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| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350646735 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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