The Christian body at work : spirituality, embodiment and Christian living / Tobias Brügger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brügger, Tobias, author.

Series:

Religion - Wirtschaft - Politik ; Band 21.

Religion – Wirtschaft – Politik ; Band 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Work.

Employees--Religious life.

Employees.

Religion in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

1st Edition.

Place of Publication:

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2021

Zurich : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ein Großteil der arbeitenden Bevölkerung weltweit gilt als christlich affiliiert, doch was bedeutet Christsein am Arbeitsplatz? Die Studie beleuchtet dazu Forschung aus Management- und Organisationswissenschaften und Theologie, präsentiert Feldforschung zu ManagerInnen in der Schweiz und entwickelt eine Verkörperungsperspektive. Der Autor benennt Schwierigkeiten der vorherrschenden Verwendung von Begriffen wie Glaube, Spiritualität oder Religion am Arbeitsplatz und plädiert dafür, Framing-Praktiken und die Körperhaftigkeit christlicher Existenz zu berücksichtigen. Indem ChristInnen in körperlicher Form an Christi Tod und Auferstehung teilhaben und so Christus verkörpern, finden sie sich an einer existentiellen Schaltstelle für die Gestaltung von Arbeitsaktivitäten. Die Studie zeigt, wie der Fokus auf "Christinnen und Christen" einen Raum für relevante organisations- und managementbezogene, soziologische, ethische und theologische Aspekte zeitgenössischer Arbeitskontexte eröffnet. Abstract A large part of the global workforce is said to be Christians, but what does it mean to be a Christian at work? This study offers a review of relevant research from management and organisation studies as well as from theology; it reports on fieldwork among business managers in Switzerland and proposes an embodiment perspective on Christians at work. The author identifies difficulties relating to the predominant uses of terms such as faith, spirituality and religion at work, and argues for the importance of taking Christians' framing practices and bodily forms of existence into account. By participating in a bodily form in Christ's death and resurrection, and by thus practising Christ's body, Christians find themselves located at an existential nerve centre for carrying out work activities. This study shows how the notion of 'Christians' can open up conceptual space for relevant organisational, managerial, sociological, ethical and theological aspects concerning contemporary work settings.

Contents:

Cover

1 Researching Christianity at work

1.1 The study of Christians at work: Research question and objectives

1.2 Target discourses: management studies and theology

1.3 Empirical data and method

1.4 Research approach: Christian embodiment

1.5 Structure: Approaching the Christian body at work

2 Introducing contemporary research on faith, spirituality, and religion in work contexts

2.1 Fsw in theoretical contexts

2.1.1 Naming of the field and key issues raised

2.1.2 Fsw in academic disciplines and discourses

2.1.3 Fsw and influential thinkers

2.1.4 Methodological contexts of fsw

2.2 Definitions of fsw

2.2.1 Definitions in empirically oriented fsw research

2.2.2 Criticism of the definition project

2.2.3 The 'conceptual convergence' approach

2.2.4 Spirituality, religion, or faith at work?

2.2.5 Current state of fsw definitions and the study of Christians at work

3 Theoretical contours of contemporary fsw research

3.1 Theorizing spiritual practice in work contexts

3.1.1 Spiritual practices and workplace spirituality

3.1.2 Work as spiritual practice

3.2 Fsw levels of analysis

3.2.1 Organizational-level fsw

3.2.2 Individual fsw

3.2.3 Interrelationship between the individual, organizational, and extra-organizational levels

3.3 Fsw and selected work-related concepts

3.3.1 Fsw and leadership

3.3.2 Fsw and management/management education

3.3.3 Fsw and entrepreneurship

3.4 Assessing fsw

3.4.1 Outcomes of fsw

3.4.2 Justification, ethics, and critique of fsw

3.5 Conclusions and outlook

3.5.1 The terms faith, spirituality, and religion in fsw theory

3.5.2 Work-related concepts in fsw theory

3.5.3 Fsw theory and the study of Christians at work

4 Fsw research and the study of Christians at work

4.1 Fsw and tradition.

4.1.1 The contested role of tradition in fsw research

4.1.2 How traditions influence fsw research

4.1.3 How traditions are studied in fsw

4.1.4 Christian tradition(s) at work

4.2 The relationship between Christians and tradition

4.2.1 The Christian location of individuals

4.2.2 Tradition in Christian perspective

4.3 Christian spirituality at work

4.3.1 Vivian Ligo's Christian spirituality of work

4.3.2 André Delbecq on the Christian manager's spiritual journey

4.3.3 Inese Radzins on the spiritual nature of work in the thinking of Simone Weil

4.3.4 Christopher Mabey on 'Jesus-centered ethical leadership'

4.3.5 Synthesis: Embodied Christian spirituality at work

4.4 Conclusion

5 Theology and the study of Christians at work

5.1 The question of a theological neglect of contemporary work contexts

5.2 Theological 'entry concepts' to the workplace

5.3 Theological ethical approaches to the workplace

5.3.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Graf on the role of Christianity in the process of globalization

5.3.2 Martin Honecker on being a Christian at work

5.3.3 Traugott Jähnichen on Protestant economic ethics

5.3.4 Nils Ole Oermann's Protestant approach to economic and business ethics

5.3.5 Arthur Rich's economic ethics from a theological perspective

5.3.6 Theological ethics and the study of Christians at work

5.4 Theologies of work, business, and the corporation

5.4.1 Jeremy Posadas on a critical Christian theology of work

5.4.2 Denise Daniels on the theology of business, management, and work

5.4.3 Michael Black on practical corporate theology and on the theology of the corporation

5.5 Theology and the study of Christians at work

6 The formation of the Christian body at work

6.1 Framing Christian existence at work

6.1.1 Mapping the framing practices of Christian managers in Switzerland.

6.1.2 Pierre Bourdieu's habitus and the existential meaning of the label 'Christian'

6.2 Embodying Christian existence at work

6.2.1 Distancing, connecting, and investing

6.2.2 Viktor Frankl's meaning in life and the Christian body at work

7 Conclusion

7.1 Recapitulation

7.2 The basic category of 'Christians'

7.3 Terminological-conceptual orientations

7.3.1 Faith and spirituality

7.3.2 Religion

7.3.3 Ethics and morality

7.3.4 Tradition

Works consulted

Appendix: Themes in fsw overview articles.

Notes:

Based a revised version of the author's dissertation, University of Zurich, 2019.

Dissertation supported by the Swiss National Science Foundaton (SNSF Project no. 169838), the UZH Forschungskredit Candoc, and the University Research Priority Programme in Ethics (URPPE) of the University of Zurich.

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Other Format:

Erscheint auch als The Christian body at work

Print version: Brügger, Tobias. The Christian body at work.

ISBN:

9783748922629

9783290220617

OCLC:

1237400280