Sustainability and the Spiritual Work Ethic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20042889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Bell (0000-0001-6382-1162), Jazmin Cullen (0000-0001-7292-573X, University of Essex), John Cullen (0000-0002-7561-7991), Scott Taylor (0000-0002-8784-2264, University of Humanistic Studies) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 185-203 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Belief and Organization (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137263100_11 |
| OpenAlex | W2504462427 |
| ISBN | 9781137263100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
Across cultures and eras, economic activity has always been closely tied to ideas relating to belief, as Weber (1930) famously argued in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber highlights the power of religious belief in shaping attitudes towards the pursuit and accumulation of wealth, suggesting that capitalism demanded a new ethic or ‘spirit’ in order to regulate life conduct and control relationships between people and the material world. Weber analyses the role of Protestantism in Europe following the Reformation as the source of a particular attitude towards the pursuit of wealth, in which financial accumulation was valued as an end in itself; a means of generating further economic growth rather than a source of pleasure or goodness. This religious attitude, based on the idea of duty in pursuing a calling or vocation, entailed the pursuit of asceticism or self-denial and the rejection of material pleasure as a means of securing salvation in the afterlife
Aesthetics · Afterlife · Asceticism · Capitalism · Denial · Duty · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Gratitude · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Protestant work ethic · Protestantism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
Spiritualities of Life
Workers’ Playtime?
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis
The Interpretation of Cultures
Personal development
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Hijacking Sustainability
The New Spirituality
Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions
Sociology of Religion
Women And Spirituality
A Secular Age
The Conquest of Cool
Ecofeminism
Ecological Ethics
The New Spirit of Capitalism
Moral mazes
This sacred Earth; Religion, nature environment
Modernity and the Holocaust
The Ecology of Commerce
Sources of the Self
Nature Religion in America
From Outward Bound to Inward Bound’
From empty speech to full speech? Reconceptualizing spirituality in organizations based on a psychoanalytically-grounded understanding of the self
Nature Religion in America
The Nature of Epiphanic Experience
Towards a critical spirituality of organization
The Elevation of Work
The rise of soft capitalism
Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality (Part I)
Religion and Power
Buddhism
The Rise of an Ideal
Beyond New Age
Surf 's Up
The holistic person; or, the ideology of egalitarianism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |