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- Title: Women, Spirituality and Social Justice in an Age of Economic Rationalism.
- Author : Women in Welfare Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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Abstract: This paper is based on a scoping study which was prompted by a concern that current dominant policy discourse of the welfare state in Australia leads to the idea that religious institutions could be responsible for welfare on a case by case basis. The policy discourse is one of social order and individual self care, rather than one of social justice. Utilising a qualitative methodology and in depth semi-structured interviews we explore whether women, in established faith institutions, are offering resistance, through their spirituality, to these dominant discourses of social order and economic rationalism. The material presented in this paper is from the first stage of the study, from five interviews: those of women from Christian (Protestant and Catholic), Jewish (Reform) and Buddhist organisations. These initial findings suggest that the kind of spiritual perspectives and practices that women, such as those participating in this study, offer, open out possibilities for our society beyond short term concerns with profit and self interest, and, which may be essential for our survival as a civil and humane society. 'I am called to be fully alive; to live daringly as though I am part of the future. Being daring involves living with a passion to claim the ground within your own life for things we haven't yet seen in justice, compassion and love.' (Anna)