Spirituality and Sustainable Development [Hardcover]

Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity.List of Figures List of Tables Introduction What is this Book About? Are We Intrinsically Self-Centered and Greedy? Organization of the Book PART I: WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY? 1. Contemporary Views on Spirituality Spirituality and Religion Spiritual but Not Religious Spirituality: Scientific Perspectives 2. Spirituality Re-examined Searching Common Grounds in Different Views Transforming Mind, Changing Values 3. Spirituality: Development Perspectives Spirituality in Conventional Development Spirituality as Establishing Right Relationships Spirituality as Transformation of the Human Mind PART II: GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM FROM SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE 4. Identifying Global Socio-Spiritual Classes Worldly Happiness and Spiritual Happiness Basic Needs and Neurotic Needs Needs and Happiness Human Values, Human Virtues and Human Vices Happiness, Needs, Values and Power Towards a Socio-Spiritual Classification of People 5. Global Economic System as a Product of Greedy Mind Characteristics of Global Socio-Spiritual Classes The Giant Fruit Tree in an Isolated Island: An Analogy Self-Centeredness, Greed and Class Relations 6. Global Economic System and Conventional Development Origin and characteristics of conventional development Self-centeredness and greed in conventional development: theory and practice Spirituality and Conventional Development: Contradictions PART III: DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT SPIRITUALITY 7. Poverty and Inequality Two forms of development Poverty and Inequality in Intentional Development Poverty and Inequality in Immanent Development 8. Environmental Unsustainability Self-Centeredness and Unsustainability Self-Centredness, Private Clã(