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Summary
In “Ethical Leadership, Religion, and Personal Development in the Context of Global Crisis,” Sandu Frunza considers the role of religious communities in mitigating the type of extremism that leads to violence and global crises. According to the author, religious leaders need to play a stronger role and have a stronger voice in outlining to their communities why extremism is incompatible with faith. Frunza also claims that the motif of the martyr plays into both pessimism and extremism. Spirituality has a role to play in ethical leadership, and can co-exist within a pluralistic society. In fact, Frunza claims that personal development and leadership programs have spiritual ethics and structures at their foundations already. It is possible to capitalize on these spiritual foundations in leadership models for the secular sector as well. Ultimately, Frunza concludes that character ethics provides a straightforward and evidence-based model for leadership success.
Strength and Validity
Even though Frunza is treating a subject that can easily become mired in nebulous ideas, the author does a good job of bridging spirituality and ethics on the one side with research in leadership and behavior on the other. The author makes simple and straightforward assertions about the continued prominence of spirituality...
Although this position would have been strengthened with the use of statistics, it is well known that spirituality and religion continue to underpin many ethical frameworks in both the public and private sector.
The author also goes against the typical postmodern grain of relativizing everything in favor of a frank and earnest discussion of universal ethics and morals. There are global crises, problems that indeed can be traced to religious extremism. Apologetics do not solve problems but only contributes to the proliferation of violence. These are also problems that cannot be solved without drawing attention to their spiritual nature. It is possible to condemn religious extremism without simultaneously isolating or censuring those who cultivate and apply genuine spiritual ethics to their personal, business, or political decisions.
One of the central tenets of Frunza’s article relates to the leadership vacuum in spiritual communities. The author is correct to accuse religious leaders of not taking enough responsibility for their role in helping to shape the attitudes of their community members. Again, the unwillingness to participate in controversial ethical debates may be traceable to a zeitgeist of apathy or postmodern relativism. Whatever the cause, the…
References
Frunza, S. (2017). Ethical leadership, religion, and personal development in the context of global crisis. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 16(46): 3-16.
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