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Toward a new world dharma: reconceptulaizing citizenship, community and the sacred in the global age

Trevor Carolan, PhD (Awarded in 2006)
Bond University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Advisor

Richard Hicks

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the problem of how, in a global future, humanity is to comprehend the singularity of the place, the biosphere it calls home. Will communities, nations, and the earth itself, for example, be regarded as ‘one’ place in which many live, or as the product of many separate, but linked compositional elements? The ‘many in the One’, or the “One in the many”? From the perspective of International Relations, in a global future will ‘integration’ at the individual level necessarily imply ‘homogenization’ at larger intercultural levels? Might the conditions of existence in a global future be understood rather as the universalization of certain key values and practices that respect the diversity of distinct regional differences? What spiritual or ethical ideas will serve as a unifying meta-narrative in a global age? These are questions of keen interest to those whose lives are touched in some way by the growing convergence of cultures, especially by the stream of classical East and South Asian wisdom paths now flowing into the West.

Year Manuscript Completed

Subject Category

Sociology, General (0626)

Keywords

International relations; Dharma; Citizenship.

Rights

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Language

EN