Healing a Broken World

While spirituality is still thought to be primarily a personal quest for holiness and religious experience it might be thought mere narcissism in an era of widespread need. Moe-Lobeda shows how the advent of globalization places a new horizon on the spiritual quest but at the same time has caused an enervation of people's sense of moral agency. What can I one person do to affect such a massive and systemic shift? Far from being a flight from the world she argues the classic Christian contemplative tradition can ignite critical vision and creative resistance to the seemingly inevitable march of globalization.