Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence

Spirituality, Diversion, and DecadenceThis book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and

Mangifera indica L

A critical analysis of how peacebuilding can become sustainable through transforming thinking about what youth participation and leadership entails

By talking to audiences and capturing pleasures and disappointments

all threatening global food security

More than 100 of Egypt's most common bird species are illustrated in color and described in both English and Arabic in this fully revised edition of a favorite book

and the rise of the distinction between normal and pathological drinking

and an elaborately decorated bow case

and will appeal to both academics and students of economics and theology

its relationship with its eponymous leader and with the Conservative Party

and international social policy

by Eleanor Medhurst

and trust—for their success