Dharma and development: Religion as resource in the Sarvodaya self help movement

by Joanna Macy

Book by Macy, Joanna

102 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1991

About the author

Dr. Joanna Rogers Macy (1929-2025), activist, ecologist and author, was one of the pioneers of engaged Buddhism. Her online work includes the article "World as Lover, World as Self"; "Bestiary" (an ode to wildlife); Nuclear Guardianship, her testimony at the World Uranium Hearings in Salzburg, 1992; and The Vegan Vision, on the ethics of a vegan diet. Her other books include Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems, World as Lover, World as Self and Rilke's Book of Hours.

Reviews

[Mariah McKay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book offers profound insight into the power and possibility of collective human awakening. Such an inspiring work that energizes my own instincts around how to weave spiritual and macro-level economic opportunity pursuits in a rather depraved American context.