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The Return of Ethics and Spirituality in Global Development
The theory of modernization basically reduces the meaning of development to economic growth often measured by Growth Domestic Product of the country or overall purchase power parity of the nation. This approach ignores the variety of perspectives on development, hence excludes the role of culture, identity, and spirituality as social determinants of good development. More importantly, modernization theory which informs the mainstream view on development ignores the structural causes of underdevelopment, including colonial heritage or the current unbridled capitalism in many societies. Against reductionist views of development, fundamental questions are raised about the theory and programming...
Cosmic Consciousness and Human Excellence
Cosmoconsciousness, or cosmic consciousness, is a term used to characterize a transcendence of the limits of self-consciousness. As an ultra-state of illumination of the mind, the roots of the conception are embodied in the quest for a spiritual connection with multi-dimensional cosmos. This quest searches for spiritual development as a pathway to human excellence, and can be associated with the mystics of ancient wisdom, as well as contemporary psycho-spiritual analysts. After its emergence in the late 19th century, cosmic consciousness rapidly became a source of inspiration for transpersonal psychology, moral therapy, and a thoughtful link to mystical quantum physics. By encouraging a spir...
Spirituality and Global Ethics
This volume addresses three fundamental questions about the interplay between the ethics of globality and spirituality: What are the practical implications of spirituality for the condition of life in a turbulent era of violent religious/non-religious extremism? In what way can spirituality, the view of love, compassion, tolerance, and mutual recognition encounter mistrust, enmity, separateness, and violence? How, and in what way, can spirituality contribute to the newly emerging global ethics? Religious scholars distinguish between the esoteric and exoteric sides of belief systems. Esotericism centres on the inner awareness, and conceals a certain spirituality that is only transmittable to ...
Latin American Perspectives on Global Development
Although as a vast subcontinent, Latin America reflects diverse perspectives of life, senses of identity, cultural and spiritual outlooks, its constituting countries share a specific history of resistance against the prevalent patterns of global development. However, Latin America presents newer accounts of development understood as genuine views on human well-being derived from a sense of its own specific identity. In an emerging renaissance emphasizing human flourishing as the ultimate goal, Latin America is shifting gears towards an ethical perspective on global development. Distinct here is an emphasis on philosophy, theology, literature, arts, music, and cinema as fertile terrains depic...
A Fortified Sea
"Illuminates the role of forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century as international powers fought for ascendency"--
Globality, Unequal Development, and Ethics of Duty
Do we have a duty to end poverty? Is this duty to alleviate poverty, or it is for healing of disempowerment? Based on what moral reasoning is this duty grounded? Must this reasoning be based on value consensus, or can it result in convergence on conclusions from plural moral premises? What results derive from this duty? To whom is this duty addressed? What are the dimensions of this duty? Is this a duty to help or a duty for justice? Is it a uniform duty or are there diverse lines of reasoning and justifications for it? Who must undertake this duty? How is the duty undertaken and fulfilled? Bringing together contributions investigating fundamental themes related to globality and ethics of duty, this volume offers a detailed analysis of these questions, while providing some policy solutions. Indeed, it provides a multifaceted and interdisciplinary dialogue about the ethics of duty in an age of globality and extreme poverty.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
As If She Were Free
A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Historia calamitatum
En este texto se describen y analizan las circunstancias que provocaron el traslado del Real Hospital de San Lázaro del centro de la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias a una isla cercana llamada Tierra Bomba, en el sitio conocido como Caño de Loro; las gestiones para el desplazamiento se inician en 1759 y terminan, más de treinta años después, en 1790. La reubicación se realizó en el marco de la política hospitalaria propuesta por el reformismo borbónico que generó múltiples proyectos por parte de las autoridades metropolitanas, virreinales y locales relacionados con el funcionamiento, las rentas, la ocupación de los espacios, la construcción y la ubicación de estas instituciones. E...
Suciedad y orden
Las reformas sanitarias borbónicas formaban parte de un proyecto que buscaba “civilizar” a los vasallos, convertirlos en sujetos sanos, obedientes y productivos, con base en ciertas prácticas ligadas al canon definido por los valores ilustrados. En el Virreinato de la Nueva Granada, las reformas sanitarias comprendieron la organización y el saneamiento del espacio urbano, el desplazamiento de los cementerios fuera de las ciudades, el establecimiento de mecanismos más eficaces para luchar contra las epidemias, la reestructuración de la institución hospitalaria, la renovación de los estudios médicos y la puesta en circulación más intensa de libros relacionados con la salud. Este libro estudia los dos primeros aspectos. El texto explica las más importantes estrategias instauradas en Virreinato de la Nueva Granada con el fin de llevar a cabo estas reformas, los objetivos alcanzados, el conjunto de resistencias que generaron y la variada literatura que produjeron. Fue esta una obra pionera, que abrió importantes caminos de reflexión sobre el tema y que impulsó debates en Colombia e Hispanoamérica.
