Spiritual activism : leadership as service /: leadership as service. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alistair McIntosh & Matt Carmichael.
• Authors: Carmichael, Matt
• Other Names: McIntosh, Alastair, 1955-
• Contents: Activism and spirituality: What is an activist? -- Activism and community -- Activism and leadership -- Activism with a spiritual basis -- CASE STUDY: Mahatma Gandhi: the power of simple service -- Spirituality justified: A contested concept -- Spiritual but not religious? -- What is spirituality? -- Spirituality under intellectual fire -- A philosophical defence of spirituality -- Rediscovering pre-modernism -- CASE STUDY: Julia Butterfly Hill: breakdown to breakthough -- Higher consciousness: Side -effect or reality? -- States of consciousness -- Mystical experience and brain function -- Are higher states "abnormal"? -- Automization of the mind -- CASE STUDY: Gerard Winstanley: the spirit that made the globe -- The stucture of the psyche: Psychology colonized -- The rise of transpersonal psychology -- Psychohistory, feudalism and rationalism -- Sigmund Freud -- Carl Gustav Jung -- Key Jungian concepts -- Abraham Maslow and Manfred Max-Neef -- Roberto Assagioli -- Wilhelm Reich -- Alice Miller -- Lessons from social psychology -- Activism, identity and psychotherapy -- CASE STUDY: Basava: the moving ever shall stay -- Movements and their movers: Leadership and conscientisation -- Masters and emissaries -- Fire in the bones -- Prophetic justice -- Shamanic calling -- Shamanic elements -- Bardic calling -- CASE STUDY: Anne Hope & Sally Timmel: training for transformation -- Understanding cults and charisma: Why study spiritual failure? -- What is a cult? -- Cognitive dissonance and cults -- Peudoscience -- Secular cults -- Authority and charisma's downside -- Love's charisma can go right -- CASE STUDY: Mama Efua: shifting religion's shadow side -- Nonviolence and the powers that be: Pussy Riot and liberation theology -- Naming, unmasking and engaging the powers -- Breaking the spiral of violence -- Nonviolence in action -- Peace and Judeo-Christianity -- Peace and Islam -- Pashtum resistance to the British Raj -- Redeeming leadership -- CASE STUDY: Muhammad (pbuh): spiritual revolution -- The psychodynamics of campaigning: Waking up -- Ego inflation versus karma yoga -- False selves, inversion and shadowstrike -- Madness versus craziness -- Transference and countertransference -- Compartmentalization, splitting and projection -- Love and anger -- A family affair -- CASE STUDY: Sojourner Truth: ain't I a woman? -- Tools for discernment: Truth and opening of the way -- Discernment and humility -- Working under concern -- Meetings for clearness -- Support groups and avoiding burnout -- Mentoring and eldership -- CASE STUDY: Desmond Tutu: truth and reconciliation -- Into the deeper magic: Magic and redemption -- To bless, to curse or to withhold? -- Psychological honesty -- Meditation and mindful presence -- Prayer on the interior battlefield -- Of runes and dreams -- Living with a prophet -- Erotic activism -- The quickening -- CASE STUDY: Gehan Macleod: urban poverty and rural vision -- Afterword -- Glossary.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Green Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (223 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 201.77; Religion and social problems; Leadership -- Religious aspects; Spirituality; Spirituality; Religion et problèmes sociaux; Leadership -- Aspect religieux; Spiritualité; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies; RELIGION -- Christianity -- General; Leadership -- Religious aspects; Religion and social problems; Spirituality
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857843012
• Related ISBNs: 085784301X; 9780857843005; 0857843001; 9780857844149; 0857844148
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.