Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to Sustainable Development

by Gary T. Gardner

Book Overview

The absence of strong spiritual and ethical dimensions in twentieth-century development helped to produce one of the most violent, environmentally impoverished, and economically unequal centuries in human history. Ethical and spiritual contributions in the twenty-first century are needed to rectify these pitfalls. Religions can help societies to wrestle with the bedrock question of societal advancement: What does it mean to be a developed society?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393328325
• ISBN13: 9780393328325
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"