Ananta Kumar Giri
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At the turn of the new century and the new millennium, we are confronted with an unprecedented challenge of rethinking the meaning and method of social transformation. The familiar models of and routes to it such as socialism and modernization do not help us come to terms with changes taking place in self and society. The present volume undertakes such a task and explores the implications of rethinking social transformation in various domains of our lives, viz., ...
Our contemporary moment is characterized by a global resurgence of religion which manifests itself in many forms—from religious fundamentalism to a spiritual renewal of self and society. While religious fundamentalism and its globalization has aroused much interest and concern, mobilization of practical spirituality at the contemporary juncture has been a neglected theme and area of scholarly exploration. In this unusual study which combines anthropology and ...
This unusual book is about a more humane world in the making. It describes the visions, experiments, struggles and aspirations of several social movements and voluntary organizations from India and other parts of the world which are striving to realize new modes of human development in various fields--education, religion, human rights, tribal development and community development. The author shows how these movements and organizations touch on many key ...
Creative Social Research calls for a fundamental reconceptualization and transformation of contemporary research methods in the social sciences. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines and geographies establish the ways in which both the traditions of non-Western societies and contemporary global developments can be incorporated into current social science discourse, greatly enriching it beyond most of the existing paradigms and approaches. Creative Social ...
Social criticism now needs to have an agenda of spiritual criticism which encompasses rational criticism. So begins New Horizons of Social theory: Conversations, Transformations and Beyond, the Intriguing new book by Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar Giri, which issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and practice to grapple with late modernity’s most pressing social and political issues. The author brings together Western thought ...
Self-development of individuals and societies is an epochal challenge now but surprisingly very little has been written about this in the vast field of development studies and social sciences. The present book is one of the first efforts in this field and explores in detail the dynamics of pursuit of self-development and the accompanying contradictions in the self-study mobilization called Swadhyaya. Giri is one of the pioneers in bringing self-development to the ...