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

2019-11-20 Social Science

Author : Cyndy Baskin
Release : 2019-11-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Spirituality and Social Justice: Spirit in the Political Quest for a Just World written by Cyndy Baskin. This book was released on 2019-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and Social Justice

2019 Electronic books

Author : Norma Jean Profitt
Release : 2019
Genre : Electronic books
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Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Spirituality and Social Justice written by Norma Jean Profitt. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

2019 Electronic books

Author : Norma Jean Profitt
Release : 2019
Genre : Electronic books
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Book Rating : 206/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE written by Norma Jean Profitt. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--

Strong Helpers’ Teachings, Third Edition

2022-09-02 Social Science

Author : Cyndy Baskin
Release : 2022-09-02
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Strong Helpers’ Teachings, Third Edition written by Cyndy Baskin. This book was released on 2022-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thoroughly updated third edition of Strong Helpers’ Teachings skillfully illustrates the importance of Indigenous knowledges in the human services. Making space for the voices of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, practitioners, and service users, Cyndy Baskin’s text models possible pathways toward relationship building and allyship. With practical examples and case studies, Baskin places Indigenous perspectives at the centre of the social work disciplines and covers topics such as spirituality, research, justice, and healing. Robust updates include new chapters on decolonization and reconciliation, as well as expanded content on holistic healing implementation, skill building, land-based practice, and child welfare. With concise theoretical content, illustrative practical applications, rich pedagogical features, and a focus on centering Indigenous worldviews, knowledge, and helping practices, this text is foundational for educators, practitioners, and students of human services, social work, child and youth care, and more. FEATURES: - Centres Indigenous knowledge for social work practice - Supplements practical applications with case studies, encouraging critical reflection and discussion - Each chapter includes an introduction and conclusion to outline objectives and summarize the chapter’s content

Reframing Trauma Through Social Justice

2024-07-31 Family & Relationships

Author : Catrina Brown
Release : 2024-07-31
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 226/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reframing Trauma Through Social Justice written by Catrina Brown. This book was released on 2024-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cross-disciplinary volume examines and reframes trauma as a social and political issue in the context of wider society, critiquing the widely accepted pathologizing of trauma and violence in current discourse. Rooted in critical social theory, this insightful text reinvokes the critiques and analysis of the women’s movement and the "personal is political" framing of trauma to unpack the mainstreaming of trauma discourse which has emerged today. Accomplished contributors address the social construction of femininity and masculinity in relation to trauma and violence, and advocate for a broader framing of trauma away from the constrained focus on pathologizing and diagnosing trauma, individual psychologizing and therapy. Instead, the book offers a fresh and compelling look at how discursive resistance, alternative feminist and narrative approaches to emotional distress and the mental health effects of violence can be developed alongside community-based, preventive, political and policy-based actions to create effective shifts in discourse, practice, policy and programming. This is fascinating reading for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics in a broad range of fields of study, including psychology, social work, gender and women’s studies and sociology, as well as for professionals, including policy makers, clinical psychologists and social workers.

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