So many of us seek sustainable life values and practices in our contemporary world. This is particularly so in the Asian context, with its profound religious traditions and its integration of spirituality into every dimension of life. In this new volume, the practices of prayer and meditation are not simply discussed within the frame of a personal spirituality, but also in its outworking in the social arena.

Here is a spirituality that is shown to have relevance for culture, natural disasters, persecution, and poverty. In these pages you will find discussions on prayer and ecology, spirituality and the social sciences, the journey of "the dark night of the soul," and the relevance of the Medieval Christian mystics for present-day Asian evangelicals.