This contributed volume collects innovative papers by scholars from Europe, India, and the USA to investigate how spirituality can contribute to renewing business in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene era. These challenges include climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystems collapse, growing inequality, wellbeing deficiencies, and social unrest. Using insights from Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Existential Humanism the book explores the spiritual aspects of the present ecological, economic, social and ethical crises, materialist worldviews in the Anthropocene and their relation to crises. Further, it reinterprets personalism for embracing ecological values, presents working models of spiritually-based sustainability practices in business, and discusses the integration of spirituality into business education to foster a greater understanding of our interconnectedness with the planet and with each other.

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business in Association with Future Earth book series, this interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars and students of sustainability, spirituality in business, leadership, and many other fields.

Explores spirituality and business, spiritual-based leadership and workplace spirituality Incorporates insights and analysis of three major religions in addressing global sustainability concerns Counterbalances these relliigous studies with contributions from the perspective of existential humanism

Autorentext

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is Associate Member of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. He serves as President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Economics of Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene: Elements of an Ethics of Sustainable (Symbiotic) Living.- Chapter 2: The Intersection of Spirituality and Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era.- Chapter 3: Exploring Conceptual Bridges between Personalism and Ecology.- Chapter 4: Spirituality, Natural Law, and Ecology.- Chapter 5: Enriching the Discourse on Sustainable Development Through the Lenses of Purusartha Catustaya.- Chapter 6: A Hindu-Buddhist 'Middle Way' Countering a 'Brave New World'.- Chapter 7: Existential Human Ethics, Maturity and Sustainocracy.- Chapter 8: The Gandhian Path and the Path of India Today.- Chapter 9: Harmonizing with Nature for Sustainable Business.- Chapter 10: Exploring the Inner Worlds of Leaders who Make a Positive Difference in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 11: A Buddhist Approach to the Business Corporation as a Real, Not Artificial, Person: A Case Study of Siam Hands.- Chapter 12: Embedding Indian Spiritual Traditions in a Business School Curriculum.- Chapter 13: Integrating Spirituality into Education to Foster Understanding of Our Interconnectedness with the Planet and Each Other.- Chapter 14: Master of Arts Program in Sufficiency Economy Philosophy as an Approach to Innovation from Mahidol University: The Interconnected Nature of Human Life and Spiritual Practice.- Chapter 15: Toward the Enlightened Homo Economicus.