God Within and Among Us: Towards an Emerging Spirituality of Social Work

What are some of the elements of a spirituality relevant for today, especially in the context of social work? How can we formulate a spiritualty relevant to the contemporary times? Can there be spiritualties in dialogue with each other? What are some of the orientations of contemporary spiritualties that can make human life more authentic? These are some of the questions we attempt to answer in this chapter. In this quest I base myself on two broad categories of general spirituality - the Eastern and the Western, though I limit the Eastern understanding primarily to the Hindu and Western primarily to the Christian spiritualties. The aim of this chapter is to draw some orientations from both these spiritualties which can inspire contemporary search for authenticity