ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the issues of art, spirituality and social transformations in transforming existing discourses and practices of development. Human development means not only economic, political and ethical development; it also means artistic and spiritual development. All these dimensions of development are interlinked but we have not paid sufficient attention to artistic and spiritual bases and horizons of human development and social transformations. To develop, both individually as well as collectively, is to develop one’s artistic and spiritual potential. This chapter explores relationships among art, spirituality and human development and describes examples from histories of ideas, art experiments and educational movements for creatively cultivating cross-fertilization among them further.
