Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business

Zusatztext LoRusso adds a valuable contribution to the evolving understanding of the Faith at Work movement and its many manifestations. While we do not always share the same scholarly presuppositions or perspectives! his voice enriches the conversation and needs to be heard. Informationen zum Autor James Dennis LoRusso is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion! Princeton University! USA. Drawing on cultural history and case studies, this book explores the history, social structure and ideology behind the workplace spirituality movement in contemporary American business. Zusammenfassung By the early twenty-first century! Americans had embraced a holistic vision of work! that one's job should be imbued with meaning and purpose! that business should serve not only stockholders but also the common good! and that! for many! should attend to the "spiritual" health of individuals and society alike.While many voices celebrate efforts to introduce "spirituality in the workplace" as a recent innovation that holds the potential to positively transform business and the American workplace! James Dennis LoRusso argues that workplace spirituality is in fact more closely aligned with neoliberal ideologies that serve the interests of private wealth and undermine the power of working people. LoRusso traces how this new moral language of business emerged as part of the larger shift away from the post-New Deal welfare state towards today's global market-oriented social order. Building on other studies that emphasize the link between American religious conservatism and the rise of global capitalism! LoRusso shows how progressive "spirituality" remains a vital part of this story as well. Drawing on cultural history as well as case studies from New York City and San Francisco of businesses and leading advocates of workplace spirituality! this book argues that religion reveals much about work! corporate culture! and business in contemporary America. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction Part One: The Changing Discourse of Business 1. The Death and Resurrection of a Craftsman: Towards a New Mythology of Work2. A New Business for Business3. Management! Spirituality! and Religion: Theology and Spiritual Practice in Neoliberal Society Part Two: Religion and Spirituality In the New Economy 4. Zen and the Art of Microprocessing: Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Silicon Valley5. Conscious Capitalism: Looser Selves! Freer Markets Part Three: Formations of Spiritual Labor 6. Not the Usual Suspects: Real Estate Rabbis! Monastic Managers! and Spiritual Salesmen in the Big Apple7. Sacred Commerce: Neoliberal Spiritualities in a West-Coast Coffee ChainConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex ...

Vorwort
Drawing on cultural history and case studies, this book explores the history, social structure and ideology behind the workplace spirituality movement in contemporary American business.

Autorentext
James Dennis LoRusso is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, USA.

Zusammenfassung
By the early twenty-first century, Americans had embraced a holistic vision of work, that one's job should be imbued with meaning and purpose, that business should serve not only stockholders but also the common good, and that, for many, should attend to the spiritual health of individuals and society alike. While many voices celebrate efforts to introduce spirituality in the workplace as a recent innovation that holds the potential to positively transform business and the American workplace, James Dennis LoRusso argues that workplace spirituality is in fact more closely aligned with neoliberal ideologies that serve the interests of private wealth and undermine the power of working people. LoRusso traces how this new moral language of business emerged as part of the larger shift away from the post-New Deal welfare state towards today's global market-oriented social order. Building on other studies that emphasize the link between American religious conservatism and the rise of global capitalism, LoRusso shows how progressive spirituality remains a vital part of this story as well. Drawing on cultural history as well as case studies from New York City and San Francisco of businesses and leading advocates of workplace spirituality, this book argues that religion reveals much about work, corporate culture, and business in contemporary America.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: The Changing Discourse of Business 1. The Death and Resurrection of a Craftsman: Towards a New Mythology of Work 2. A New Business for Business 3. Management, Spirituality, and Religion: Theology and Spiritual Practice in Neoliberal Society Part Two: Religion and Spirituality In the New Economy 4. Zen and the Art of Microprocessing: Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Silicon Valley 5. Conscious Capitalism: Looser Selves, Freer Markets Part Three: Formations of Spiritual Labor 6. Not the Usual Suspects: Real Estate Rabbis, Monastic Managers, and Spiritual Salesmen in the Big Apple 7. Sacred Commerce: Neoliberal Spiritualities in a West-Coast Coffee Chain Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index