Transforming: Applying Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation

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Global crisesfrom pandemics to climate changedemonstrate the vulnerability of the biosphere and each of us as individuals, calling for responses guided by creative analysis and compassionate reflection. Transforming, building on its companion volume, Awakening, explores actions that create paths of understanding and collaboration as the groundwork for transformative community. The community of scholars in this volume offers perspectives that collectively form a complex tapestry of resources. The volume engages with the complex range of challenges and possibilities across a variety of sectors, and provides an interdisciplinary approach to the prospects for transformative healing of human and non-human communities, and the global environment we inhabit. Spirituality is essential to this, and, as such, the work explores vital dimensions of emerging spiritual concepts, methods, and practices that harbor interfaith potential for genuine reconciliation and communion.

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An extraordinary book that truly transforms you inside-out...Vern Neufeld Redekop and Gloria Neufeld Redekops edited book has a fascinating collection of chapters that are intricately related to the three pillars of psychospiritual and transcendental lifespirituality, emergent creativity and reconciliation. Katherine Peil Kauffman's presentation of an integrated view of individual emotions to Naresh Singh's pioneering application of complexity theory to societal development, Karen Hamilton's and Iman Ibrahim's positions of religious conflict resolution to Lauren Levesques potential use of music in reconciliation, are striking examples of the many pragmatic perspectives. An evocative prescription that emerges out of the book is the use of complexity theory to integrate the inter-woven transformations at different scalesintrapersonal, interpersonal, and community, eventually leading to transformation of the entire biosphere.

-- Anirban Chakraborti, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Transforming, edited by Vern and Gloria Neufeld Redekop, is a refreshing and exciting volume that is in itself an example of emergent creativityto use one of the books key concepts. The approaches to and processes of transformation offer many new theoretical ideas and examples of how to build peace that resonate with concepts of biological life, spirituality, justice, and the human heart. Throughout the book, the focus on creativity, generativity, and transformativity is so needed in our work, our communities, and our world.

-- Jessica Senehi, University of Manitoba

Author Bio

Gloria Neufeld Redekop is researcher and author in spirituality and religious social history. Her publications include Bad Girls and Boys Go to Hell (or not): Engaging Fundamentalist Evangelicalism and The Work of Their Hands: Mennonite Womens Societies in Canada.

Vern Neufeld Redekop is professor emeritus of conflict studies in Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada.