ABSTRACT
Why is this genre of spiritually-engaged knowledge emerging in the contemporary context? Since it was the global context of environmental destruction and social injustice that first provided a way of framing the image of the woman on the bridge, let us begin with a consideration of this global domain. Within the broader context defined by the global horizon, the governing forms of both knowledge and identity are relativised. The common horizon of the global context places limits on this relativism and thus challenges us to move beyond relativism to reflexivity, and beyond reflexivity to transformation of our ways of knowing and being within the global domain.
