Spirituality, Organization and Society (original) (raw)
The notion of spirituality and religion is not a new phenomena and its historical trajectory could be traced back to the advent of the civilization when people tried to understand cosmology and ontology of humankind. Therefore, spirituality and religion has been a vital epidemiological apparatus in interpreting the world around us backed by its values and belief system. The genealogy of religion and spirituality prove that it took different routs of its existence. It was sometime emancipatory and sometime hegemonic and political and as a result the notion of religion was subjected to a severe criticism especially from modernist thinking in the late 17the century for its hegemonic and political stance and also for fundamental epistemological assumptions of mystification. As a result of modernist challenge under the age of enlightenment or reason not only the religion but also other epistemological and philosophical roots have been divisionalized creating spiritual and epistemological dominance. This dominance had subsequently extended towards other areas such as business and education. There were certain attempts to arrest this situation by way of introducing the notion of spirituality and other soft side of management such as modern Management its branches such as Human Resource management in business organizations, schools, universities and other higher learning institutions. Subsequent thoughts like integral spirituality and learning has tried to ease the dominance of few philosophical and epistemological stances by drawing parallels of such ideologies together creating methodological and epistemological plurality. The impact of such initiatives has to be still interrogated.
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