<p>Practical Spirituality, Human Development and Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures: An Introduction and an Invitation.- Part I New Visions and Cultivation of Practical Spirituality and Human Development.- On the Holy Ground: Practical Spirituality and Practical Moral Courage.- Multidimensional Mysticism.- Practical Spirituality: The Art and Science of Conscious Living.- The New Spiritual Paradigm as Facilitator of Social Change.- Expressions of Self in Market, Society and Self: Towards Spiritual Praxis for Human Development.- Cultivating Practical Spirituality: Soil, Soul and Sarvodaya.- Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Circles of Gender Liberation and the Calling of Lokasamgraha.- Part II Creative Experiments in Practical Spirituality and Human Development.- Practical Spirituality and the Contemporary City: Awakening the Transformative Power for Sustainable Living.- Practical Spirituality: Dabbawala Case.- Practical Spirituality and Developmental Challenges among Tibetan Communities in India.- Practical Spirituality with Meher Baba and Human Development in the Modern Age.- Practical Spirituality and Religious Giving: Pluralism and New forms of American Muslim Giving.- Community and Practical Spirituality: Perspectives on L’Arche as an Arena for Contemplative Transformation.- Assertive Sprout from Wounded Psyche: Glimpses into Dalit Spirituality.- The Politics of Spirituality: Dissident Spiritual Practice of Poykayil Appachan and the Shared Legacy of Kerala Renaissance.- Transforming Life-worlds: In Praise of Kundrakudi Adigalar’s Practical Spirituality.- Subud: A Practical Mystical Path for the 21st Century.- Islam, Political Culture and Practical Spirituality in Kedah, A State in Northwestern Malyasia.- Ziyaret and Practical Spirituality: Women’s Shrine Visits in Anatolia.- Part III Transformation of the Material and the Spiritual and Practical Spirituality as New Movements of Awakening.- The Material and the Spiritual: The Provisionality of Matter and the Politics of Miracles in Japanese New Religions.- The Spiritual Politics of Bio-cultural Regeneration.- Human Consciousness and Its Discontents: An Ecological Reading of The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna.- Ecological Holism: Arne Naess’s Gestalt Ontology and Merleau-Ponty’s Bodily-Flesh Phenomenology.- Light Development in an Age of Climate Change.- Spirituality as a Bridge: A Holistic Approach to Social Development and Dignity.- Practical Spirituality and Journey with Sacred Mountains.</p>