Spiritual Activism - Leadership as service

Drawing on a rich history of spirituality and activism, this is both a guide and inspiration for people involved in activism for social or environmental justice.

List of contents

The authors
Poem - Beyond
Introduction

1. Activism and Spirituality
2. Spirituality Justified
3. Higher Consciousness
4. The Structure of the Psyche
5. Movements and their Movers
6. Understanding Cults and Charisma
7. Nonviolence and the Powers that Be
8. The Psychodynamics of Campaigning
9. Tools for Discernment
10. Into the Deeper Magic

Afterword
Glossary
Recommended Reading
Endnotes
Index

About the author

Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish writer, scholar, broadcaster and activist on social, environmental and spiritual issues, raised on the Isle of Lewis. A Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, an Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity at Edinburgh University, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the College of Social Sciences at Glasgow University, he holds PhD in liberation theology and land reform from the University of Ulster.

He now lives in Govan where he is a founding director of the GalGael Trust for the regeneration of people and place. A Quaker, he lectures around the world at institutions including WWF International, the World Council of Churches, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the UK Defence Academy (on nonviolence). He regularly presents Scottish Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 and is renowned for his activist victories on the isles of Eigg and Harris..
Matt Carmichael is a climate activist, English teacher, writer and homemaker with a degree in theology from Durham. He was a founder board member of Schumacher North and is the creator of the Delta Course; an intensive course on spirituality for groups of people from any or no religious background.

Product details

• Authors: Matt Carmichael, Carmichael Matt, Alastair McIntosh
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2025
• EAN: 9781399423151
• ISBN: 978-1-3994-2315-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 193 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 280 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; RELIGION / Spirituality, SELF-HELP / Spiritual, Political activism, Spirituality & religious experience, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Spirituality and religious experience, Environmentalist thought and ideology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement