Sociology and Beyond : Windows and Horizons

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. I. Invitation and cultivation: 1. Sociology and beyond: the calling of an ontological epistemology of participation. 2. Sociology and new paths of criticism and creativity. 3. Beyond adaptation and meditative verbs of co-realizations: towards creative nurturance of I me and you and the transformative fellowship of non duality. 4. Rethinking the human and the social: towards a multiverse of transformations. 5. A new global humanity: self development, inclusion of the other and planetary realizations. 6. Moral consciousness and communicative action: from discourse ethics to spiritual transformations. 7. Sociology as a quest for a good society: a conversation with Robert Bellah. 8. Understanding social in Indian traditions. 9. Social science research in India: call of home and the world. 10. Sociology and the limits of loyalty. 11. The challenge of understanding Indian society: critique, generosity and transformations. II. Movements and transformations: 12. Social movements in the advanced societies and the emerging transnational spaces. 13. Building in the margins of shacks: towards a hermeneutics of recovery. 14. Understanding the Chipko movement. III. New horizons of quality of life and societal co-realizations: 15. Quality of life and the method of science: a contemporary critique. 16. Social development as a global challenge. 17. The new built environment: new classes and the new homelessness in contemporary United States. 18. The aesthetics of production and consumption. 19. Globalizing economy and the calling of dialogues. 20. Global justice and the calling of peace. 21. Cultivating transformative reconciliation and striving for peace: compassion, confrontation and a new art of integration. IV. Cultivating transdiciplinarity and fields of mutual blossoming: 22. The calling of a creative transdisciplinarity. 23. Psychology and the challenge of the postmodern condition. 24. Conquest of self? Intimacy and overcoming of boundaries. 25. Anthropological imagination and forgetting: a glimpse into Milan Kundera's  A Book of Laughter and Forgetting. 26. Epistemological crisis in anthropology: the case of the quest for the real Samoa. 27. The power of word, the language of religion. 28. Sociology, theology and spirituality: nurturing spaces of emptiness and striving from fullness to a different fullness. 29. Literature, society and the calling of creative public spheres: towards a new art of cross-fertilization. 30. With and beyond plurality of standpoints: sociology and the Sadhana of multi valued logic and living. Index.