Connecting Spirituality and Social Justice
Connecting Spirituality and Social Justice

Author: Michael Sheridan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1134928084

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Jim Wallis, well-known justice advocate and author, has stated that the two great hungers in the world today are for spirituality and social justice. Although social work and related fields have increasingly recognized the importance of addressing spirituality within clinical practice, less attention has been paid to the role of spirituality in promoting social justice or supporting social change within macropractice. The contributions in this edited collection highlight current developments in this area, including emerging conceptual frameworks, practice applications and research findings. Theoretical approaches to understanding the link between spirituality and justice are explored in analyses of alternative models of social justice and justice orientations of major faith traditions. The critical role of spirituality in larger system change is illustrated through exemplars of research on vulnerable populations, community practice, legislative advocacy, development of social movements, and ecological social work. The importance of including content on religion and spirituality in professional curricula is explored through research on students’ attitudes toward spirituality and social advocacy. Noting the resonating themes within all of these contributions, the volume concludes with an overview of emerging principles for spiritual activism. This book aims to stimulate further development in the vital connection between spirituality and social justice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work.

Spirituality and Social Justice: Spirit in the Political Quest for a Just World
Spirituality and Social Justice: Spirit in the Political Quest for a Just World

Author: Cyndy Baskin

Publisher: Canadian Scholars

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1773381180

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Spirituality and Social Justice explores how critically informed spirituality can serve as an inspiration and a political force in the quest for social and ecological justice. Writing from various spiritual and religious worldviews, including Indigenous, Islamic, Wicca/Witchcraft, Jewish, Buddhist, and Christian, the authors—practitioners and academics of social work—draw on lived experience, research, and literature to illuminate how relationship with spirit can orient ways of being and acting to build a more just society. In Part One, the authors foreground Indigenous spirituality as resistance and decolonization. Part Two examines the complex ethical and political dimensions of spirituality, including the ecological destruction of the Earth and the influence of contemporary neoliberalism. Lastly, Part Three explores spirituality in teaching and learning contexts, both inside and beyond the classroom. Engaging and well-written, Spirituality and Social Justice challenges the notion that practitioners must put aside their critical spirituality in teaching, learning, healing, and practice. Students, practitioners, and academics of social work and other helping professions will benefit from the unique insights into spirituality and religion and how they inform social justice activism.

Spirituality Matters in Social Work
Spirituality Matters in Social Work

Author: James R. Dudley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-02

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 131775266X

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Offering a focus that is lacking (or not clearly evident) in most spirituality books, Dudley addresses specific ways of incorporating spirituality into practice and integrates many of the contributions of other writers into an overall eclectic practice approach. His approach revolves around many of the core competencies of the EPAS accreditation (CSWE, 2008). Most of the core competencies are addressed with an emphasis on professional identity, ethical practice, critical thinking, diversity, practice contexts, and, a major practice framework of the book, the practice stages of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Spirituality and Social Justice
Spirituality and Social Justice

Author: Norma Jean Profitt

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781773381190

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"Over the past three decades, there has been an appreciably renewed interest in spirituality and/or religion in social work practice. Spirituality and Social Justice explores how critically informed spirituality (i.e., spirituality grounded in a critical social work framework/theory) serves as a political force and an inspiration in the pursuit of social and ecological justice in the social work profession. Writing from various spiritual and religious backgrounds, including Indigenous, Wiccan, Islamic, and Christian, the contributors--social work practitioners and academics alike--draw on spiritual practices, lived experiences, research, and literature to illuminate how spirituality orients their ways of being and acting in the world to build a kinder, fairer, and more egalitarian society. Arguing for a critical conceptualization of spirituality as the practice of ethical relations and moral accountability, this collection raises the spiritual challenge for the social work profession of facing historical and contemporary forms of the colonization of Indigenous Peoples and moving toward ally-ship and solidarity with them. Furthermore, this collection highlights the indivisibility of spirituality from the everyday efforts to pursue social justice through right relationships and individual and collective actions, thereby challenging the notion that social work practice requires one to leave one's faith and spirituality at the door to be an unbiased practitioner and embracing the fact that one's spirituality is at the core of who one is. It also accentuates how spirituality in the quest for social justice is actualized. Part One foregrounds Indigenous spirituality as resistance and decolonization; Part Two further explores the complex subject of the ethical and political dimensions of spirituality from a variety of spiritual and religious worldviews; and Part Three delves into spirituality in teaching and learning contexts, both inside and beyond the social work classroom."--

SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Author: Norma Jean Profitt

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781773381206

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"Over the past three decades, there has been an appreciably renewed interest in spirituality and/or religion in social work practice. Spirituality and Social Justice explores how critically informed spirituality (i.e., spirituality grounded in a critical social work framework/theory) serves as a political force and an inspiration in the pursuit of social and ecological justice in the social work profession. Writing from various spiritual and religious backgrounds, including Indigenous, Wiccan, Islamic, and Christian, the contributors--social work practitioners and academics alike--draw on spiritual practices, lived experiences, research, and literature to illuminate how spirituality orients their ways of being and acting in the world to build a kinder, fairer, and more egalitarian society. Arguing for a critical conceptualization of spirituality as the practice of ethical relations and moral accountability, this collection raises the spiritual challenge for the social work profession of facing historical and contemporary forms of the colonization of Indigenous Peoples and moving toward ally-ship and solidarity with them. Furthermore, this collection highlights the indivisibility of spirituality from the everyday efforts to pursue social justice through right relationships and individual and collective actions, thereby challenging the notion that social work practice requires one to leave one's faith and spirituality at the door to be an unbiased practitioner and embracing the fact that one's spirituality is at the core of who one is. It also accentuates how spirituality in the quest for social justice is actualized. Part One foregrounds Indigenous spirituality as resistance and decolonization; Part Two further explores the complex subject of the ethical and political dimensions of spirituality from a variety of spiritual and religious worldviews; and Part Three delves into spirituality in teaching and learning contexts, both inside and beyond the social work classroom."--

Critical Perspectives on Black Education
Critical Perspectives on Black Education

Author: Noelle Witherspoon-Arnold

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 162396749X

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While nation engages in debates concerning central issues of religion and religious diversity in education, the historic saliency of religion and spirituality in the Black community and in the education of its children continues to be largely ignored. Historically, religion and spirituality were foundational to the development and understanding of social justice issues, including, but not limited to, issues of protest, community up-lift, notions of care, and anti-oppression. Taking into account the historical significance of religion and spirituality in the Black community, it is essential for education scholars to cultivate these long-standing connections as a means for advancing contemporary struggles for social justice, religiosity in education, and counter-hegemonic praxis. The purpose of this book is to expand our understanding of spirituality and religion as related to the p-20 schooling of Blacks students. Educational scholarship continues to explore the workings of social justice to ameliorate inequities for those who have not been well served in schools. Although the concept of social justice remains a somewhat inchoate term in educational literature, this book seeks to explore the historicity of religion and spirituality while offering a scaffold that links ordinary everyday acts of justice, religion, and spirituality in education to a culture that systematically and institutionally assaults the worth of Black students. It is important to note that this book is grounded in a broad concept of religion and spirituality and the editors seek to be inclusive of all types, styles, and traditions of religiosity and spirituality.

Fleshing the Spirit
Fleshing the Spirit

Author: Elisa Facio

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0816530971

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Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers to explore the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. The anthology incorporates different genres of writing—such as poetry, testimonials, critical essays, and historical analysis—and stimulates the reader to engage spirituality in a critical, personal, and creative way.

Spirituality in the Workplace: A Philosophical and Social Justice Perspective
Spirituality in the Workplace: A Philosophical and Social Justice Perspective

Author: Marilyn Y. Byrd

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-01-11

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1119357594

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Missing from the discourse on spirituality are the injustices experienced in the workplace, particularly by individuals marginalized by social group identity or affiliation. This is a critical omission in that spirituality can stimulate reflection, response, healing, and transformation of the soul. Filling the gap by addressing the role of spirituality in relation to meaningful work, this volume extends ideas about teaching and learning about spirituality to workplace settings, including the transformative learning theory. In seeking ways to promote moral and socially responsible workplaces and to establish a new way of thinking, the volume lays down a philosophical framework for spirituality in the workplace as a means of emancipation and social justice, and shows how the workplace can be a fruitful context for social justice education. This is the 152nd volume of the Jossey Bass series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

Living Peace: Connecting Your Spirituality with Your Work for Justice
Living Peace: Connecting Your Spirituality with Your Work for Justice

Author: Victor Narro

Publisher:

Published: 2014-07-25

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781499798029

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Longtime labor and immigration rights activist Victor Narro believes it's time to bring spirituality into social justice work. To that end, his book Living Peace provokes dialogue for the sharing and integration of spirituality among those working for peace and justice. Narro reveals how the life and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi shape his work, teaching him the way of peace, love, and service, and how through interaction with other activists, his Franciscan spirituality has also been enriched by that of others, such as Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. As he shares his reflections on various ways spirituality can nourish social activism, Narro invites readers to contemplate and then express what's inside their own hearts as they awaken to the power of shared spirituality as a force for social justice. The book's simple, elegant structure presents each reflection along with several questions and the space to write responses. Each book will become a personal spiritual tool for activists, providing guidance that can make the struggle for justice more compassionate, more fulfilling, and healthier for everyone.

Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice
Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice

Author: Edward R. Canda

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 019988823X

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Many of the people served by social workers draw upon spirituality, by whatever names they call it, to help them thrive, to succeed at challenges, and to infuse their resources and relationships with meaning beyond mere survival value. This revised and expanded edition of a classic provides a comprehensive framework of values, knowledge, skills, and evidence for spiritually sensitive practice with diverse clients. Weaving together interdisciplinary theory and research, as well as the results from a national survey of practitioners, the authors describe a spiritually oriented model for practice that places clients' challenges and goals within the context of their deepest meanings and highest aspirations. Using richly detailed case examples and thought-provoking activities, this highly accessible text illustrates the professional values and ethical principles that guide spiritually sensitive practice. It presents definitions and conceptual models of spirituality and religion; draws connections between spiritual diversity and cultural, gender, and sexual orientation diversity; and offers insights from Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Indigenous religions, Islam, Judaism, Existentialism, and Transpersonal theory. Eminently practical, it guides professionals in understanding and assessing spiritual development and related mental health issues and outlines techniques that support transformation and resilience, such as meditation, mindfulness, ritual, forgiveness, and engagement of individual and community-based spiritual support systems. For social workers and other professional helpers committed to supporting the spiritual care of individuals, families, and communities, this definitive guide offers state-of-the-art interdisciplinary and international insights as well as practical tools that students and practitioners alike can put to immediate use.