Spirituality, Culture, and Development (eBook)

Implications for Social Work

Subhabrata Dutta, Srilatha Juvva, Khadija Khaja, Chathapuram S. Ramanathan (Herausgeber)

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2016
298 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1968-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores culture, development, and spirituality from a social work perspective using case studies from around the world. It serves as a guide for those who want to better understand and incorporate spirituality into successful social work interventions, practice, and research.

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This book explores culture, development, and spirituality from the perspective of social work. This framework serves as foundation and guides analytical deliberation through the use of case studies from around the world. With emerging trends in development, synchronistic synthesis between the inner self and interventions, it is anticipated to contribute to advancing well-being of all people. The book reflects global experiences from both the social work professions and development practitioner's perspectives, as it pertains to economic and social development. The book serves as a guide to those who want to better understand and incorporate spirituality into successful social work interventions, practice, and research. It examines social development in the daily lives of children and families by looking at larger national and international phenomenon that can affect the well-being of communities. The book further discusses natural disasters, poverty, war, migration, human trafficking, war, violence and other factors with suggestions of innovative global interventions that have been utilized to assist diverse marginalized groups and communities.

Autor

Chathapuram S. Ramanathan is chief executive of Human Service Enterprises.Srilatha Juvva is professor of social work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Subhabrata Dutta is professor and head of the Department of Social Work and dean of students’ welfare at Assam University.Khadija Khaja is associate professor at Indiana University's School of Social Work.

Inhalt

Foreword, Kay HoffmanPart I: Background InformationChapter 1: Introduction: Chathapuram S. Ramanathan and Srilatha Juvva Chapter 2: Religious, Spiritual Perspectives, and Development, Pius V Thomas, Chathapuram S. Ramanathan, and Pravina RamanathanPart II: Poverty and HungerChapter 3: Ending Poverty and Hunger: The Global Pursuit of Human Dignity, Neil RenwickPart III: Empowering WomenChapter 4: Advancing Social Commitment towards Advancing Women in India and Globally, Subhabrata Dutta, Chathapuram S. Ramanathan, and Srilatha JuvvaChapter 5: Domestic Violence in the Asian American Community and Islamic Women, Shreya Bhandari and Khadija KhajaPart IV: Health IssuesChapter 6: Challenges Confronting Sustainable Development Goals: Learnings from Millennium Development Goals, Ruchi SinhaChapter 7: People and Disability: Strengths and Challenges, Srilatha Juvva, Prerna Sharma, and Pravina RamanathanPart V: Disaster ManagementChapter 8: Culture and its Relevance in Provision of Psychosocial Support for Survivors of Disasters, Kasi Sekar, Elangovan Aravind Raj, Srilatha Juvva, and Chathapuram S. RamanathanChapter 9: Public-Private-NGO partnership and Tsunami Relief, Chathapuram S. Ramanathan, Srilatha Juvva, and Mizanur MiahPart VI: EducationChapter 10: Universal Education and Development, Rosemary J. LinkPart VII: Future ConsiderationsChapter 11: Concluding Remarks and Futuristic Considerations: Progress, Development, and Peace, Chathapuram S. Ramanathan and Subhabrata Dutta

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2016
• Co-Autor: Shreya Bhandari, Neil Renwick, Kasi Sekar, Prerna Sharma, Ruchi Sinha, Pius V. Thomas, Subhabrata Dutta, Aravind Raj Elangovan, Srilatha Juvva, Khadija Khaja, Rosemary J. Link, Mizanur R. Miah, Chathapuram S. Ramanathan, Pravina Ramanathan
• Zusatzinfo: 27 Illustrations including: - 6 Color Illustrations; - 3 Tables; - 18 Text Boxes.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Development • Social Work • Sociology • Sociology of Religion • Spirituality • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1968-7 / 1498519687
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1968-7 / 9781498519687