How Can Spiritual Assets Facilitate Community Building?
What Conditions Are Most Favorable for the Expression of Spiritual Assets?
How Spiritual Assets Can Be Used
Some Examples of Spiritual Assets in Practice
Developing Spiritual Assets
Some Challenges and Issues in Applying Spiritual Assets
Spiritual qualities, such as compassion and justice, are often directly connected with the work of community building. In this chapter, we hope to examine those qualities, or assets, to show how they have been used in practice, and how you can use them for greater effectiveness in your own community-building work.
“Spirituality” refers to the qualities that inspire us to do what is right and good – for ourselves and for others. This chapter is about those qualities and their application in one’s personal, professional, and community life.