Spiritual economies : Islam, globalization, and the afterlife of development / Daromir Rudnyckyj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudnyckyj, Daromir, 1972-

Series:

Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Expertise : cultures and technologies of knowledge

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Krakatau Steel, PT--Employees--Training of.

Krakatau Steel, PT.

Krakatau Steel, PT--Employees--Religious life.

Islam--Indonesia--21st century.

Islam.

Islamic renewal--Indonesia.

Islamic renewal.

Islam--Economic aspects--Indonesia.

Economic development--Religious aspects--Islam.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity-but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and surprising book challenges widespread assumptions about contemporary Islam by showing how moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia are reinterpreting Islam not to reject modernity but to create a "spiritual economy" consisting of practices conducive to globalization.Drawing on more than two years of research in Indonesia, most of which took place at state-owned Krakatau Steel, Rudnyckyj shows how self-styled "spiritual reformers" seek to enhance the Islamic piety of workers across Southeast Asia and beyond. Deploying vivid description and a keen ethnographic sensibility, Rudnyckyj depicts a program called Emotional and Spiritual Quotient (ESQ) training that reconfigures Islamic practice and history to make the religion compatible with principles for corporate success found in Euro-American management texts, self-help manuals, and life-coaching sessions. The prophet Muhammad is represented as a model for a corporate CEO and the five pillars of Islam as directives for self-discipline, personal responsibility, and achieving "win-win" solutions.Spiritual Economies reveals how capitalism and religion are converging in Indonesia and other parts of the developing and developed world. Rudnyckyj offers an alternative to the commonly held view that religious practice serves as a refuge from or means of resistance against modernization and neoliberalism. Moreover, his innovative approach charts new avenues for future research on globalization, religion, and the predicaments of modern life.

Contents:

Faith in development

Developing faith

Spiritual economies

Governing through affect

Post-Pancasila citizenship

Spiritual politics and calculative reason.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801462306

0801462304

9780801462313

0801462312

OCLC:

865509058