Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business

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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