On a civic spirituality

Mark Schmanko posted on this topic at FB IPS. Please read it to get the context of my initial reply, following.

In the Clinton/Sanders thread I linked to some of the material from the Network of Spiritual Progressives. That is the closest I come to the spirituality of civic engagement. E.g., from their home page:

"The Network of Spiritual Progressives — the interfaith advocacy arm of Tikkun magazine — seeks to transform our materialist and corporate-dominated society into a caring society through consciousness raising, advocacy, and public awareness campaigns that promote a “New Bottom Line” based on generosity, peace, and social transformation. The NSP shifts mass consciousness by challenging status-quo ideas about what is possible."

Further down on that page, in answer to what is spiritual:
"Ethics, aesthetics, love, compassion, creativity, music, altruism, generosity, forgiveness, spontaneity, emergent phenomena, consciousness itself, and any other aspect of reality not subject to empirical verification or measurement."

That's about as close as I get to transcendence. But if you accept that definition of spirituality, then indeed I do think civic engagement is a spiritual endeavor, not merely an immanent domain. For I don't accept the metaphysical dichotomy of spiritual/immanent. And to so assert requires no angels or demons!

 Now Rabbi Lerner, one of the founders of NSP, in this video does believe in a spiritual, transcendental force that goes beyond realism. But I tend more toward the embodied non-dual interpretation of what that spiritual/material force is ontologically.