Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age

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Todays globalized society faces some of humanitys most unprecedented social and environmental challenges. Presenting inspiring and effective approaches to a range of these challenges, the timely volume before you draws upon individual cases of exemplary leadership from the worlds Dharma traditionsHinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The volume's authors refer to such exemplary leaders as beacons of Dharma, highlighting the ways in which each figure, through their inspirational life work, provide us with illuminating perspectivesas we continue to confront cases of grave injustice and needless suffering in the world. Taking on difficult contemporary issues such as climate change, racial and gender inequality, industrial agriculture and animal rights, fair access to healthcare and education, and other such pressing concerns,Beacons of Dharmaoffers a promising and much needed contribution to our global conversations.Seeking to helpalleviate and remedy such social and environmental issues, each of the chapters in the volume invites contemplation, inspires action, and offers a freshly invigorating source of hope.

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Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars of the Modern Age is more than just a well-researched work of scholasticism -- it also blossoms with a practitioner-style devotion that invokes its reader to touch their own indefatigable potential to make a lasting impression on the world for the greater good of all.

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Jeffery D. Long is professor ofrReligion and Asian dtudies at Elizabethtown College and author of A Vision for Hinduism, Jainism: An Introduction and the Historical Dictionary of Hinduism. Christopher Patrick Miller is clinical professor of yoga studies at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Michael Reading is PhD candidate in comparative theology and philosophy at the Claremont School of Theology.