Spirit Matters

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  • Author : Michael Lerner
  • Binding : Hardcover
  • EAN : 9781571741950
  • ISBN : 157174195X
  • Label : Hampton Roads Publishing Co
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Hampton Roads Publishing Co
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 384
  • Package Dimensions : 1.36 inches (Height) x 9.40 inches (Length) x 1.78 pounds (Weight) x 6.24 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2000-08
  • Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing Co
  • SKU : ACOMMP2_book_new_157174195X
  • Studio : Hampton Roads Publishing Co

Spirit Matters is a highly recommended book for anyone who longs to live in a world with stronger spiritual values and less emphasis on ecological destruction, material gain and technological progress. And nowadays, there are a lot of us out there, according to acclaimed rabbi and author Michael Lerner (The Politics of Meaning). Many individuals live as a "divided self", he explains. We privately hold deep spiritual beliefs, but are too uncertain or shy when it comes to asserting those beliefs in the public arena.To bridge this duality, Lerner offers this thoroughly readable manual on how to introduce solid and healthy spiritual values into our world culture. This is not about pushing a hidden religious agenda, or trying to create a fad-like movement around the latest "New Agey" ideology. Rather, Lerner devotes this book to presenting an intelligent vision of deeply caring for one another and our planet. Chapter by chapter Lerner gives examples of what readers can do for the environment, endangered animals, hospitals, prisons, the workplace, home front and neighbourhood. As a narrator and thinker, Lerner is sweeping and eloquent in his understanding of spiritual complexities, yet he also offers specific suggestions, such as improving education by eliminating "the SATs and other odious forms of testing". Or addressing the US prison problems by eliminating jail terms for non-violent crimes. As a spiritual/political manifesto, Spirit Matters cannot be praised enough. --Gail Hudson

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