Healing Nationhood: Essays on Spirituality, Place and Community

Curlew Productions, 2000. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Condition good. Isbn 1-900259-95-8,1900259958. A collection of writings on liberation theology of social activism as applied to nation-building. Main work instigated by some of Russians most senior & conomists + theologians. What is community? How does it build nationhood? Why is the land important? These are the sort of questions that Alastair McIntosh addresses in this passionate and provocative collection of essays. The crisis facing the planet and humankind is too great not to be turned into an opportunity! That opportunity, he argues, is for well-grounded spiritual growth. It entails building beauty back into our relationships. It means making community with one another, with nature and through inner life-with what we might call "God." The lead work in this volume was commissioned by the Head of the Department of Economics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Other contributions range from an address that launched land reform on the Isle of Eigg, to work on ecology and poetry commissioned by the United Nations and reflections on topics as diverse as education, violence, ethnicity and the fishing industry.