The Galileo Project - Faith and Transformation

The Galileo Project - Faith and Transformation (an interactive seminar of faith groups and researchers to be conducted in English)

The Galileo creed was an intellectual desire on the part of a number of Hungarian intellectuals in the early part of the twentieth century to devise a moral basis for social organization at a time of profound spiritual crisis. The Galileo Project is an attempt to return to some of these points of discussion and apply them to the world today.

In the wake of World War One, Karl Polanyi, who had been a lead member of the Galileo Circle, was drawn to Christianity; he felt the war was a reflection of mankind’s moral disintegration and that there was a need for a moral and ethical renaissance. Gandhi held a similar view: “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.”

The seminar will be led by a group of active Christians and Hindus.

• How can we become the change we want to see in the world?

• How can we transform ourselves?

• How can faith groups and civil society contribute to a process of challenging materialism and orchestrated polarization and scapegoating?

• Why do researchers need to understand these processes?

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