The Integrative Worldview and its Potential for Sustainable Societies

According to several authors, our contemporary cultural landscape is characterized by an emergent, integrative cultural movement and worldview, which attempts to reconcile rational thought and science with a spiritual sense of awe for the cosmos. This rational “cosmic piety” may hold important poten...

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Main Author: Hedlund-de Witt, Annick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Worldviews
Year: 2014, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 191-229
Further subjects:B integrative worldview sustainable development social-cultural change environmental leaders integrative worldview framework (IWF)
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