Spiritual Capital: Spirituality in Practice in Christian Perspective [Hardcover]

Michael OSullivan is Director of the MA in Applied Christian Spirituality and Co-Director of the inter-institutional Spiritual Capital Ireland Centre between All Hallows College and Waterford Institute of Technology.

Bernadette Flanagan is Director of Research at All Hallows College, Dublin City University and Co-Director of the inter-institutional Spiritual Capital Ireland Centre between All Hallows College and Waterford Institute of Technology.

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.

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.

List of Figures, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Exploring Spiritual Capital: Resource for an Uncertain Future?, 2 A Secular Response to Social Solidarity?: Social Capital, Religion and the Implications for Social Policy, 3 Spiritual Capital and the Turn to Spirituality, 4 T he Ecological Crisis and Spiritual Capital, 5 Frederick Ozanams Spiritual Capital and Todays Consumer Society, 6 Spiritual Capital in a Competitive Workplace, 7 Faith-Based Organisations and the Work of International Development, 8 T he Spiritual Dimension to Berealû