The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

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Simon and Schuster, May 11, 2010 - Self-Help - 336 pages
'The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another...' Although we have developed the technology to make communication more efficent and to bring people closer together, we have failed to use it to build a true global community. Dr M. Scott Peck believes that if we are to prevent civilization destroying itself, we must urgently rebuild on all levels, local, national and international and that is the first step to spiritual survival. In this radical and challenging book, he describes how the communities work, how group action can be developed on the principles of tolerance and love, and how we can start to transform world society into a true community.
 

Contents

Prologue
13
Stumbling into Community
25
Individuals and the Fallacy of Rugged
53
CHAPTER in The True Meaning of Community
59
The Genesis of Community
77
Stages of CommunityMaking
86
Further Dynamics of Community 707
107
Community Maintenance
136
Patterns of Transformation
186
Emptiness
209
Vulnerability
226
Integration and Integrity
234
Healthy or Sick? The Christian Church in the United
257
The Heresy of the Church The Church as Battleground Signs of Hope The United States Government Balance of Power or Chaos? The Unreality of t...
292
Postscript
331
Copyright

The Bridge
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About the author (2010)

M. Scott Peck, M.D. is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Road Less Traveled, with six million copies in print. His other books include Further Along the Road Less Traveled, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, Meditations from the Road and Golf and the Spirit.

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