Warm, enlightening, and inspiring, this is a happiness book like no other, making clear the interconnected nature of both personal and international happiness movements. Preaching Happiness relies on spirituality, history, economics, and conflict resolution theory to show that spiritual transformation is necessary to create new systems of well-being. Inviting and accessible, with easy-to-read personal stories interwoven with research and expertise, it is full of helpful, and hopeful, information for those seeking to make the changes necessary to live a full and happy life, and, to create a just and joyful world.

Ginny Sassaman is a co-founder of Gross National Happiness USA, and the creator of the Happiness Paradigm. Since 2013, she has served as a lay preacher at Unitarian Universalist churches in Vermont, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and South Carolina. She has a master’s in mediation and a certificate in positive psychology, and teaches secular meditation classes. She lives with her husband near Montpelier, Vermont.