Because the world staggers from disaster to disaster, world leaders are ignoring the important function of spiritual and non secular communities in fixing them at their peril, a brand new report suggests.
The Religion in Motion report states that roughly 85 % of the world's inhabitants subscribes to a spiritual or non secular custom, and that many non secular teams are working successfully with companies and different stakeholders to handle key financial, environmental, geopolitical and technological challenges.
“International leaders can’t afford to disregard the affect of faith and spirituality on right this moment's interconnected challenges,” the report mentioned.
“For a lot of the world right this moment, faith and spirituality proceed to tell what the great life is and the way greatest to consider the challenges going through households, nations and the world.
“For world leaders, underestimating the enduring affect and function of faith in society can result in missed alternatives for larger optimistic affect in multi-faith societies and a major oversight in understanding how faith and spirituality work together within the complicated societal challenges occurring right this moment.”
The report says there needs to be “larger recognition” of the advantages of working with spiritual actors who’re capable of mobilize giant networks and draw on their world affect.
The report was produced by the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) in collaboration with the Non secular Freedom & Enterprise Basis, the Abu Dhabi Discussion board for Peace, the World Evangelical Alliance, Bhumi International and the Council for Inclusive Capitalism.
It highlights examples of revolutionary faith-based partnerships and celebrates world leaders who’re already “going past fundamental spiritual literacy and making use of their strategic, contextual understanding of religion communities and traditions to realize significant engagement and affect by means of partnerships.”
The report encourages world leaders to extend their “religion fluidity” and discover “significant engagement” with religion actors “at a time of deepening polarization and distrust in society.”
“Religion fluidity—the power to use a strategic, contextual understanding of religion communities and traditions for significant engagement and affect—is crucial for leaders from authorities, enterprise and worldwide organizations,” he says.
“Three elementary elements are value noting that illustrate the enduring energy of faith and spirituality—group, religion, and citizenship—and why fluidity of religion is crucial for world leaders.
“Understanding these various spiritual traits is crucial for enterprise leaders as a result of these traits considerably affect world market dynamics, form shopper and voting preferences, and play a key function in figuring out the cultural competency wanted to efficiently function in various markets.
“Faith and spirituality additionally affect media consumption patterns and form the contours of what messages individuals hearken to and from whom.”
