Spiritual Capital: A Moral Core for Social and Economic Justice

by Samuel D. Rima

Overview

In Spiritual Capital, Sam Rima makes the case for a new moral foundation or core to business and economics that directly addresses today's financial and business crisis. Based on solid academic research, Rima explains spiritual capital theory in terms of the resources needed for its creation, how it is formed, how it can be invested and what the re

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032838618
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/24/2024
Series:	Transformation and Innovation
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Samuel D. Rima has worked in national politics, the Church, and academia. The author of three books, he holds a Master of Divinity degree from Talbot School of Theology, A Doctor of Ministry degree in transformational leadership, and a Ph.D. from the University of Buckingham, UK. He has taught and lectured all over the world. He was formerly the Director of the doctoral program at Bethel University's Seminary and continues to serve there as faculty in the Center for Transformational Leadership. Dr Rima worked with the Sekem Group in Cairo, as Director of the Heliopolis University Center for Social Innovation, until the Egyptian Revolution intervened. He is a co-founder of the Movement for the Advancement of Spiritual Capital (MASC), which has as its mission capacity building for the common good.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface — Introduction — PART 1 GROUNDING — 1 Subjective Grounding of the Book: My Indigenous, Exogenous Journey — 2 objective Grounding of the Book: the Missing Moral Core — part 2 emerging — 3 The Emergence of the Missing Moral Core and the Need for Spiritual Capital — PART 3 NAviGATING — 4 The Economic Mainstream and Its Critics — 5 Spiritual Capital: A Moral Core for Social and Economic — Justice — 6 Integral Research Leading to Spiritual Capital Theory — PART 4 EFFECTING — 7 A Theory of Spiritual Capital — 9 Spiritual Capital to Integral Economy: Journeying from — America to Africa and Africa to America — Appendix A: Grounded Theory Interview Questions — Appendix B: Spiritual Capital Inventory Survey — Appendix C: Spiritual Capital Inventory Grid — Further Reading — Bibliography — Index