Spiritual Pragmatics: New Horizons of Human Development, Social Transformations and Planetary Realizations

A Dialogical Workshop at the Department of International Business Communication with Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies. Organized by Søren Brier, Copenhagen Business School

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 14:30 to 17:30

 

With a broader philosophical and theoretical engagement with spiritual pragmatism we can come to spiritual pragmatics as a way of rethinking human development and social transformations. Spiritual pragmatics can help us rethink conventional notions of practice and engagement as well as models of human development. It can also suggest new frames of reference for thinking about narratives of change with regard to such epochal issues as climate change. Spiritual pragmatics can challenge us to rethink human development as both a political and spiritual process of transformation involving transformation of very modes and telos of power and not only acquisition of power.

In our workshop, we wish to explore further issues of spiritual pragmatism in the light of concerns shared above.  We want to explore the following issues as starting points for further dialogues and planetary conversations:

  1. Spiritual Pragmatism and Spiritual Pragmatics: Rethinking Human Development, Social Transformations an the Challenges of Planetary Conversations and Planetary Realization
  2. Spiritual Pragmatics and Transformation of Economics and Politics
  3. New Horizons of Spiritual Pragmatics: Time, Suffering and Healing
  4. Spiritual Pragmatism: Practical Discourse and Practical Spirituality and Transformation of Leadership and Management
  5. Spiritual Pragmatism and the Contemporary Challenges of Theory and Practice exploring contemporary developments in cognitive sociology, pragmatic sociology, life sciences and new neurology
  6. Spiritual Pragmatism and the Calling of a Post-Secular Society: Overcoming the Pathology of Reason and Religion and Nurturing Spaces of Healing

You are most cordially invited to join us in this workshop. See also attached invitation.

Please send an abstract of your proposed paper or presentation within 250 words to Dr Ananta Kumar Giri and Professor Soren Brier at aumkrishna@gmail.com / sb.ibc@cbs.dk by February 1, 2013

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