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"By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa's Efuru (1966) was the first internationally published novel in English by a female African writer. With the establishment of Tana Press in 1977, Flora Nwapa also became the first female publisher in Africa. Although Flora Nwapa has been recognized as the 'mother of modern African literature', she is not sufficiently acknowledged in world literary canons or world literature studies, which is something this monograph aspires to redress, with the help of earlier studies, especially Nigerian scholarship. Drawing on the Efuru@50 celebration in Nigeria in 2016, this book explores the revival of Flora Nwapa's fame as the pioneer of African women's literature. Using an ethnographic rather than biographical approach, it captures Flora Nwapa's literary practice in the context of the Nigerian literary scene and its interlinkages with world literature. The ethnographic portrayal of Flora Nwapa is complemented with an exposé of a select number of contemporary Nigerian women writers, based on interviews during fieldwork in Nigeria. The book uses concepts like creolized aesthetics and womanist worldmaking to advance scholarly understandings of world literature, which is conceived here as a pluriverse of aesthetic worlds. Exploring experimental ethnographic writing, the book combines the genres of creative non-fiction, descriptive ethnography and scholarly analysis, in an effort to make the text more accessible to academic as well as non-academic readers. Through travel notes the experience of fieldwork is shared in a candid manner. Detailed ethnography from the Efuru@50 literary festival is presented to show the expansion of Flora Nwapa's fame. In-depth analyses of Flora Nwapa's literary works and the cultural context of her literary practice cover a wide range of themes, from feminine storytelling and children's literature, to publishing and digitalization. The theoretical discussion draws on anthropological, literary and African womanist theory to contextualize and explore the central themes of femininity and spirituality in world literature. Inspired by the social change perspective of African womanism and critical decolonial theory, the book makes a contribution to current efforts to explore a more socially just and environmentally sustainable world of many worlds. Paying close attention to gender complementarity and sacred engagements in Flora Nwapa's literary worldmaking, it shows how world literature can help us create other possible worlds of human, spiritual and environmental coexistence."

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"All I Feel is Rivers is a collection of essays in a ground-breaking genre, the "dervish essay," a new kind of hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. Vivian's dervish essays take on grief and loss, the natural world and climate, spirituality and ecstasy, all while pushing the boundaries of what prose can do"--

Grief. --- Loss (Psychology) --- Nature. --- Climatology. --- Spirituality. --- Ecstasy.

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"Four decades in the journey of 'management' has made Dr R. P. Banerjee completely engrossed in the spirit of the subject, in principle and practice. While delivering lectures at leading universities in the USA and Europe, and in many leading institutes and universities in India and in the Asian region, Dr Banerjee got the opportunity to delve into the minds of learners across the world. Additionally, his involvement as a corporate advisory and in training and development programmes also paved the way to understand the real needs of MNCs and large corporations. This work is a fruit of these wholesome gains in knowledge and experience. An MBA, PhD, NET (UGC), with a postdoctoral degree from Europe, he has been awarded several national and international awards and accolades, including: 'Dr S. Radhakrishnan Award' for outstanding contribution to teaching by Hindustan Unilever Limited BBC Knowledge 'Education Leadership Award' CIMA (London) global awards for 'Outstanding Contributions to Education' 'Distinguished Teacher' award by Stockholm University, Sweden 'Thought Leader Award' for excellence in education, leadership and teaching, presented by CIMA (London) 'Visionary Leader Award' received at the 4th Asia's Global Conference held in Singapore Dr Banerjee's focus has been on spiritual attainment for himself and others. He has been conducting an open discourse on 'Divinity in Life' every Sunday for the last two decades"--

Management --- Spirituality. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Religious aspects.

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Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for “spiritual, but not religious” (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga’s role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.

Festivals --- RELIGION / Comparative Religion. --- Spirituality --- Yoga. --- Social aspects. --- Yoga --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Communities --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism

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Though the majority of Americans claim faith in God and adults spend the majority of their time working, these two important dimensions of life are rarely effectively integrated. It is important for people of every faith tradition to consider how, when and if their faith and work are to be integrated. This is especially true as research shows that the integration of faith and spirituality in the workplace results in numerous benefits for individuals, organizations, and society - if done respectfully. This book presents core research insights concerning integration influences and strategies for Christians who seek to integrate their faith and their work. Specifically, it discusses how individual, occupational, and organizational factors influence faith-work integration, and suggests diverse ways to integrate the Christian faith at work. The Faith and Work Integration Spheres of Influence Model is presented as a tool to guide individuals in better understanding how to develop their own personal plan for faith-work integration within the context of limiting or enabling occupational and organizational factors. It also suggests areas for further research on this topic. Readers will learn how Christian faith-work integration can be maximized based on individual attributes, occupational characteristics, and organizational factors. .

Work --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Work (Theology) --- Business—Religious aspects. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Faith, Spirituality and Business. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Management --- Organization --- Organisation