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.
An international group of authors in anthropology, sociology, religious studies, political science, critical management studies explore the contemporary flourishing of subjectivities centred on a variety of spiritual practices and imaginaries. The book analyses the social and organisational mechanisms that underlie the generation of 'enterprising' and 'competitive' subjectivities engaged in transforming inner selves and social environments in accordance with prevailing neoliberal economic rationalities. Contributions draw on a wide range of empirical settings around the world to discuss the role of subjectivities in organizations. The purpose of the book is to provide specific insights into how neoliberalism is resisted, contested or reproduced through a transformative ethic of spiritual self-realization.
Researchers, academics and Masters level students in a range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, and organization studies will find this book relevant reading.
Contributors include: I. Abraham, E. Bell, L. Cortois, S. Gog, A.-R. Kaupinnen, J.D. LoRusso, D. Miller, K. Navazhylava, A. Peticca-Harris, G. Shanahan, A. Simionca, S. Taylor, K. Valaskivi, T. Vine, A. Yankellevich
Show moreThis 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.
An international group of authors in anthropology, sociology, religious studies, political science, critical management studies explore the contemporary flourishing of subjectivities centred on a variety of spiritual practices and imaginaries. The book analyses the social and organisational mechanisms that underlie the generation of 'enterprising' and 'competitive' subjectivities engaged in transforming inner selves and social environments in accordance with prevailing neoliberal economic rationalities. Contributions draw on a wide range of empirical settings around the world to discuss the role of subjectivities in organizations. The purpose of the book is to provide specific insights into how neoliberalism is resisted, contested or reproduced through a transformative ethic of spiritual self-realization.
Researchers, academics and Masters level students in a range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, and organization studies will find this book relevant reading.
Contributors include: I. Abraham, E. Bell, L. Cortois, S. Gog, A.-R. Kaupinnen, J.D. LoRusso, D. Miller, K. Navazhylava, A. Peticca-Harris, G. Shanahan, A. Simionca, S. Taylor, K. Valaskivi, T. Vine, A. Yankellevich
Show moreContents:
1. Towards Radical Subjects: Workplace Spirituality as Neoliberal
Governance in American Business
James Dennis LoRusso
2. Running to stay in the same place? Personal development work and
the production of neoliberal subjectivity among Israel’s “last
republican generation”
Ariel Yankellevich
3. Expressive Individualism in the New Spirit of Capitalism:
Mindfulness and Outdoor Management Development
Liza Cortois
4. A ‘Juggly Mummy’s’ life history of teaching yoga: Embodied
postfeminism and neoliberal spirituality
Amanda Peticca-Harris, Kseniya Navazhylava, Genevieve Shanahan
5. The commodification of re-sacralised work in the neoliberal
era
Tom Vine
6. Enchanted gardeners in urban food gardens: A case study of
Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Darlene Miller
7. Citizens for Ghana and the Kingdom: Christian Personal
Development in Accra
Anna-Riikka Kauppinen
8. Religion after Work: Christianity, Morality, and Serious
Leisure
Ibrahim Abraham
9. The contemporary faith of innovationism
Katja Valaskivi
Index
Edited by Emma Bell, Professor of Organisation and Leadership, Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise, The Open University, UK, Sorin Gog, Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, Anca Simionca, Lecturer and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania and Scott Taylor, Reader in Leadership and Organization Studies, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK
'This carefully crafted book takes on a very complex and
multifaceted phenomenon. As a project of genuine interdisciplinary
work, it shows how serious intellectual resources can be mobilised
to investigate complicated empirical material, often too
simplistically marked ''spirituality in organisations''. Examples
familiar to all receive nuanced conceptual treatment so that both
cases and analyses become valuable exercises in excellent social
science. Looking forward to using it in thinking through
contemporary work, management and culture, as well as in
teaching.'
--Bogdan Costea, Lancaster University, UK'This volume provides a
sophisticated look at the varieties of spirituality under
capitalism, combining sociological perspectives on religion with a
critical engagement on the topic. Flanked on its sides by an
organizational spirituality literature that too-often treats
spirituality unquestioningly, and a critical literature that
reduces it to ideological and instrumental uses, this volume
presents nuanced essays that take seriously the lived experiences
of organizational members, while never losing sight of the social
and political stakes of spirituality within a capitalist
society.'
--Gazi Islam, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
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