This volume outlines various religious practices followed across the global south and highlights their correlation to sustainability. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars across diverse disciplines, including philosophy, economics, ethics, theology, sociology, ritual studies, and education. The interdisciplinary volume mines religious rituals and practices for answers that could aid and alleviate unsustainable lifestyles. Delving deep into the cultural practices of tribal religions in India, the book highlights humanistic elements to establish sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and being. Including perspectives from Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, and tribal religious traditions, this book is a must for scholars interested in sustainability and religion in the global south.
Chapter
1. Jain lifestyle: Epitomising discipline, ethics and
environment consciousness.
Chapter
2. Managing Self: An Analysis Through
Arjun Visada Yoga with Reference to Bhagwad Gita.
Chapter
3. The World Café
approach to the Sustainable Buddhist Custom of the Alms Collection on Boat at
the Mahasawat Canal in Thailand.
Chapter
4. Pakhala in Jagannath Culture:An
Amalgamation of Food, Heritage and Science.
Chapter
5. Re-imagined Trtha as
Sustainable Management of Pilgrimage, beyond officially sacred: Pilgrim,
Prayer, and Profit.
Chapter
6. Sustainability in Rabindranath Tagores
Philosophy of Religion.
Chapter
7. Divine Ideation: Quest for Truth in Annie
Besants Works.
Chapter
8. Study of sustainable approach inthe temples: an
analysis.
Chapter
9. Spiritual Sustainability and Health: An Overview of
Tribal Religious Beliefs.
Chapter
10. Indigenisation of Christianity in Oral
Tales of Northeastern Naga Communities: An Ecotheological Reading.
Chapter
11. Indigenous Beliefs and Practices for Sustainability among the Mao Nagas.-
Chapter
12. Following Others Religion and the Problem of Liminal Identity:
An Eco-Religious Study of the Bhumij Tribe of Bengal.
Chapter
13.
Environmental Sustainability through Nature Worship: Understanding the
Ecosophy of the North East Indian Indigenous Communities.
Chapter
14.
Sustainable Livelihoods of Tribal Religions During and Post COVID-19 Period
in the State of West Bengal: A Critical Investigation.
Chapter
15. Sarnaism,
Spirituality and Sustainability: Understanding Adivasi Religious Belief
System and Identity Formation.
Chapter
16. Green Ethics: The Concept of
New Religion and Sustainability.
Chapter
17. Change and Continuity of
Tribal Religion among Soura Tribe in Gajapati District of Odisha.
Chapter
18. Procuring Mental Health through Yoga and Meditation: A Study of
Patańjalis Yoga Stras.
Chapter
19. Tracing the Possibility of Human
Evolution Through Integral Yoga: An Aurobindonian Method towards
Sustainability and Collective Well Being.
Chapter
20. Holistic Health Care
Energy Transformation Mahyna Buddhist Meditation for Better Living.-
Chapter
21. Yoga-meditation practice:a bridge to students good mental
health.
Chapter
22. Karmic Over-Consumption Indirectly Proportional to
Sustainability:Yoga A Solution?.
Chapter
23. Contribution of religion and
spirituality in the wellbeing of individuals.
Chapter
24. The Impact of
Insight Meditation on the Development of Mental Health.
Chapter
25. Yoga for
sustained happiness and better living: a contemplative enterprise.
Chapter
26. Wings for Ameliorate Leaders: Motivating Students through Spirituality
and Religiosity.
Chapter
27. Materialism and Criminal Attitude among
Teachers and Students: Moderating role of Religion.
Chapter
28. Christian
Religious Moulding for Sustainable Christian Followership through Education:
A case study of WOFBI (Nigeria) Leadership Courses.
Chapter
29. Sustenance
of spirituality within as the essence of all religion.
Chapter
30. Spiritual
Capital and Business Sustainability: A Secular Perspective.
Prof. Deepanjali Mishra earned her PhD in English from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. Her Area of interest includes Folklore and Culture studies, Sociolinguistics, English Language Teaching, Management and Cybersecurity and Gender studies, and has over 17 years of teaching and research experience. Deepanjali Organised a National Workshop on Publishing Manuscript in 2019 and International Conference on "Incorporating Folklore studies in Management Practices" in Dec 2017. Her research titled, A Method For Analyzing And Optimizing Violence Against Women On Social Networking Sites has been granted patent rights by the Australian Government She has published two books titled 'I am a Woman' with Bahri Publishers New Delhi in 2017 and "Corporate Communication: an insight". She has also published an edited volume titled, "Science and Spiritualism for a Sustainable World" with IGI Global, Pennsylvania publishers in 2019 and "Corporate Communication- an insight" in 2019. Her book titled Exploring Feminism through Shobha Des Novels has recently been published. Her edited volume titled, Learning How to Learn has been published with Springer LNET. She is the guest editor of Rupkatha, Research Chronicler, Literaria and Indian Journal of Communication. Apart from that she has organized two International Webinars on Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Digital Humanities in 2020 and 21. She has published more 30 research papers in reputed international journals and has presented her papers in various International conferences in India and abroad like IIT, IIM, BHU, South Korea, China and Nepal.
Jeffery D. Long is the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania, where he has taught since receiving his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in the year 2000. In 2021, Elizabethtown College gave Dr. Long its Ranck Award for Research Excellence. In 2018, he received the Hindu American Foundations Dharma Seva Award for his ongoing work to promote accurate, culturally sensitive portrayals of Indic traditions in the American education system and popular media. And in 2013, he gave the inaugural Virchand R. Gandhi Lecture in Jain Studies at Claremont University. He has spoken in a variety of prestigious venues, including the University of Chicago, Yale University, Princeton University, and the United Nations. Dr. Long has published numerous articles and is the author of several books, including Hinduism in America and Jainism: An Introduction, the editor of Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, and Scientific, as well as the co-editor, with Christopher Miller and Michael Reading, of Beacons of Dharma and, with Michael Long, of Nonviolence in the Worlds Religions. He also co-edited the Buddhism and Jainism and Hinduism and Tribal Religions volumes of the Springer Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. He edits the series Explorations in IndicTraditions: Ethical, Philosophical, and Theological for Lexington Books.
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