Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism write by Emma Bell. This book was released on 2020-07-31. Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together analyses from across the social sciences to develop an interdisciplinary approach to understanding spiritualities and neoliberalism. It traces the lived experience of social actors as they engage with new and alternative spiritualities in neoliberal contexts. The purpose of the book is to provide specific insights into how neo-liberalism is resisted, contested or reproduced through a transformative ethic of spiritual self-realization.
Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business
Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business write by James Dennis LoRusso. This book was released on 2017-02-09. Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Neoliberalism, Management and Religion
Neoliberalism, Management and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neoliberalism, Management and Religion write by Edward Wray-Bliss. This book was released on 2021-03-31. Neoliberalism, Management and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Organised around the concepts of Gods, Devils, Soul, and the Individual this book will show how these concepts are being employed in current managerial, leadership and organisation discourses.
Peace Love Yoga
Peace Love Yoga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peace Love Yoga write by Andrea R. Jain. This book was released on 2020. Peace Love Yoga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In Peace Love Yoga, Jain analyses growing spiritual industries and their coherence with neoliberal capitalism. "Personal growth," "self-care," and "transformation" are just some of the generative tropes in the narrative of these industries. Jain illuminates the power dynamics underlying what she calls neoliberal spirituality, illustrating how spiritual commodities are rooted in concerns about deviancy, not only in the form of low productivity but also forms of social deviancy. Jain, however, does not just offer one more voice bemoaning the commodification of spirituality as a numbing device through which consumers ignore the problems of neoliberal capitalism or as the corruption or loss of "authentic" religious forms. Instead, she asks what we should make of subversive spiritual discourses that call on adherents to think beyond the individual and even out into the environment, claims to counter the problems of unbridled capitalism with charitable giving or "conscious capitalism," challenges to the imperialism behind the appropriation and commodification of products from yoga to mindfulness, calls for women's empowerment, and efforts to greenwash commodities, making them more environmentally "friendly" or "sustainable." Rather than a mode through which consumers ignore, escape, or are numbed to the problems of neoliberal capitalism, many spiritual commodities, corporations, and entrepreneurs, Jain suggests, do actually acknowledge those problems and, in fact, subvert them; but they subvert them through mere gestures. From provocative taglines printed across t-shirts or packaging to calls for "conscious capitalism," commodification serves as a strategy through which subversion itself is contained"--
Religion in the Neoliberal Age
Religion in the Neoliberal Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion in the Neoliberal Age write by François Gauthier. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Religion in the Neoliberal Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, together with a complementary volume 'Religion in Consumer Society', focuses on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Claiming that we are entering a new phase of state-religion relations, the editors examine how this is historically anchored in modernity but affected by neoliberalization and globalization of society and social life. Seemingly distant developments, such as marketization and commoditization of religion as well as legalization and securitization of social conflicts, are transforming historical expressions of 'religion' and 'religiosity' yet these changes are seldom if ever understood as forming a coherent, structured and systemic ensemble. 'Religion in the Neoliberal Age' includes an extensive introduction framing the research area, and linking it to existing scholarship, before looking at four key issues: 1. How changes in state structures have empowered new modes of religious activity in welfare production and the delivery of a range of state services; 2. How are religion-state relations transforming under the pressures of globalization and neoliberalism; 3. How historical churches and their administrations are undergoing change due to structural changes in society, and what new forms of religious body are emerging; 4. How have law and security become new areas for solving religious conflicts. Outlining changes in both the political-institutional and cultural spheres, the contributors offer an international overview of developments in different countries and state of the art representation of religion in the new global political economy.
