Social Healing

Auteur

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India.

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Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach- bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together - to understand health, social suffering, and healing in our contemporary world.

Résumé
Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together to understand health, social suffering, and healing in our contemporary world.

Contenu

Foreword

Mamphela Ramphele

Preface

Acknowledgment and Gratitude

Social Healing: An Introduction and an Invitation

PART I

The Visions, Calling and Challenges of Social Healing

1 Social Healing: Society as a Patient, Metapathology, and the Challenges of Self and Social Transformations

2 Social Healing: The Calling of Transformative Harmony

3 Life World and Living Words

4 Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: Social Healing, Posthumanism and New Horizons of Theory and Practice and the Calling of Planetary Conversations

5 Healing the Dualism between Subjectivity and Objectivity: Transforming the Subjective and the Objective and the Calling of Transpositional Subjectobjectivity

6 Social Healing and Healing Epistemologies: With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South, Ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topial Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Challenges of Planetary Realizations

7 Healing the Theoretical Pathology of Eurocentrism and Ethnocentrism: Social Theories, Asian Dialogues and Planetary Conversations

PART II

Global Social Healing and the Calling of Planetary Lokasamgraha

8 Interrogating, Confronting and Reconstituting Displacement and a New Politics, Poetics and Spirituality of Dwelling: The Ethics, Aesthetics and Responsibility of Home and the World

9 Healing Identities: Identity and Ahimsa

10 Social Healing and Circles of Gender Liberation

11 Social Healing and the Challenges of Transforming Caste Domination and the Challenges of Structural Transformations and Transformation of Consciousness: Ambedkar, Shankara and Beyond

12 Social Healing and Networks of Agape and Creativity: Learning Across Borders and the Calling of Planetary Realizations

13 Healing and the Challenges of New Institutions of Learning: Universities at the Cross-Roads and the Challenges of Experimental Creativity and the Challenges of Alternative Planetary Futures

14 Social Healing and a New Art of Border Crossing

15 Healing the Wounds of Roots and Routes: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes, Ethnicity and the Calling of Socio-Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations

16 Healing the Wounds of Religious Ignorance and Arrogance: The Multiverse of Hindu Engagement with Christianity and Plural Streams of Creative Co-Walking, Contradictions, Confrontations and Reconciliations

17 Social Healing and the Challenges of Transforming Suffering and Striving for Reconciliation and Peace

18 COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma, Healing and Transformations: Ethics, Politics and Spirituality, and Alternative Planetary Futures

19 Global Social Healing: Upholding our World, Regenerating Our Earth and the Calling of a Planetary Lokasamgraha

Afterword

FRED DALLMARY

Index