Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to Sustainable Development - Couverture souple

Gardner, Gary T

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393328325 ISBN 13 : 9780393328325

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

The absence of strong spiritual and ethical dimensions in twentieth-century development helped to produce one of the most violent, environmentally impoverished, and economically unequal centuries in human history. Ethical and spiritual contributions in the twenty-first century are needed to rectify these pitfalls. Religions can help societies to wrestle with the bedrock question of societal advancement: What does it mean to be a developed society? In doing so, religious traditions help to create the new worldviews needed to build sustainable civilizations in the new century. Fortunately, many religious traditions are awakening to their vital role. "Inspiring Progress" identifies the value that religions add to the debate about societal advancement, and it encourages the world s religious traditions to step up their involvement in shaping the development path of the human family in the twenty-first century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gary Gardner is director of research at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC. His work focuses on a broad array of research and social change issues that affect the effort to build sustainable societies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393328325
• ISBN 13: 9780393328325
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible