ABSTRACT
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. It shows how we can transform the present discourse and reality of social suffering by multi-dimensional movements of social healing. The author argues for the need for a new art of healing in place of the dominant and pervasive technology and politics of killing. It discusses manifold creative theories and practices of healing in self, society, and the world as well as new movements in social theory, philosophy, and social sciences which deploy creative methods of art and performance in healing our psychic and social wounds. It explores the spiritual, social, ethical, and political dimensions of health and healing. This pioneering work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory, sociology, politics, philosophy, and psychology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|120 pages
The Visions, Calling and Challenges of Social Healing
chapter 1|13 pages
Social Healing
chapter 4|19 pages
Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society
chapter 5|13 pages
Healing the Dualism between Subjectivity and Objectivity
chapter 6|31 pages
Social Healing and Healing Epistemologies
chapter 7|16 pages
Healing the Theoretical Pathology of Eurocentrism and Ethnocentrism
part II|207 pages
Global Social Healing and the Calling of Planetary Lokasamgraha