Spirituality, Corporate Culture and American Business: The Neoliberal Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capital
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A new religious movement? A progressive business practice?Or capitalist appropriation? -- The entanglement of spirituality, corporate culture, andAmerican business -- Conceptualizing neoliberalism a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Ser
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Professional life
/ Neo-liberalism
/ Enterprise culture
/ Religion
/ Spirituality
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Electronic books
B Religion in the workplace |
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Print version: LoRusso, James Dennis: Spirituality, Corporate Culture and American Business : The Neoliberal Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capital. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9781350006270 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A new religious movement? A progressive business practice?Or capitalist appropriation? -- The entanglement of spirituality, corporate culture, andAmerican business -- Conceptualizing neoliberalism and globalization -- Structure and scope -- Part One The Changing Discourse of Business -- 1 The Death and Resurrection of a Craftsman: Toward a New Mythology of Work -- Management as a moral enterprise -- Work as a spiritual project -- Conclusion -- 2 A New Business for Business -- Management: America's elixir -- Servant-leadership -- Work in America -- Willis Harman and humanistic capitalism -- 3 Management, Spirituality, and Religion: Theology and Spiritual Practice in Neoliberal Society -- The neoliberal workplace -- Inventing a spirituality for the workplace -- Neoliberal theology -- Part Two Religion and Spirituality in the New Economy -- 4 Zen and the Art of Microprocessing: Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Silicon Valley -- The seeker entrepreneur: Steve Jobs -- Spiritual bricolage -- The "Reality Distortion Field" -- Les Kaye: Zen and work -- 5 Conscious Capitalism: Looser Selves, Freer Markets -- David Schwerin and the genesis of Conscious Capitalism -- Megatrends: A spiritual vision of business -- Libertarian spirituality -- Mapping a neoliberal habitus -- Part Three Formations of Spiritual Labor -- 6 Not the Usual Suspects: Real Estate Rabbis, Monastic Managers, and Spiritual Salesmen in the Big Apple -- The New York groups -- Competing aims -- Class power, the Great Recession, and neoliberalism -- 7 Sacred Commerce: Neoliberal Spiritualities in a West-Coast Coffee Chain -- Café Gratitude and Sacred Commerce -- Spiritual rhetoric at Café Gratitude -- Embodying neoliberalism -- Daily "clearings" -- Abounding River Workshop. Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 The Death and Resurrection of a Craftsman: Toward aNew Mythology of Work -- 2 A New Business for Business -- 3 Management, Spirituality, and Religion: Theology andSpiritual Practice in Neoliberal Society -- 4 Zen and the Art of Microprocessing: Liberating theEntrepreneurial Spirit in Silicon Valley -- 5 Conscious Capitalism: Looser Selves, Freer Markets -- 6 Not the Usual Suspects: Real Estate Rabbis, MonasticManagers, and Spiritual Salesmen in the Big Apple -- 7 Sacred Commerce: Neoliberal Spiritualities in aWest- Coast Coffee Chain -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Internet References -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1350006254 |