Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism: Understanding Lived ExperiencesEmma Bell, Sorin Gog, Anca Simionca, Scott Taylor 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. |
Contents
workplace spirituality as neoliberal governance in American business | 1 |
2 Running to stay in the same place? Personal development work and the production of neoliberal subjectivity among Israels last republican generation | 27 |
mindfulness and outdoor management development | 46 |
embodied postfeminism and neoliberal spirituality | 67 |
5 The commodification of resacralised work in the neoliberal era | 87 |
a case study of Khayelitsha Cape Town | 107 |
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