Prophets, Profits, and Peace : The Positive Role of Business in Promoting Religious Tolerance / Mark Mazower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazower, Mark, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business--Religious aspects.

Business.

Religious ethics.

Business ethics.

Peace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 206 p. )

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking book investigates the religious issues that businesses confront as they expand their global activity and proposes that corporations can become instruments of peace. Timothy Fort discusses the newly emerging idea of "peace through commerce," and he argues powerfully that today's businesses have the capacity to foster both peace and religious harmony. Fort asks and answers important questions: How might businesses integrate spirituality into corporate affairs? How can spirituality contribute to the production of high-quality goods and services? What can be done to promote a spiritual connection between employees and their work? Can this be done without provoking religious animosities? What business practices might encourage an atmosphere in which constructive dialogue among spiritual traditions could proceed? The author concludes that by implementing the peaceful practices advocated by religions at their best, businesses can both nurture religious harmony and strengthen their communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1. Globalization's Flashpoints

Chapter 2. Religion's Good, Bad, and Ugly Sides

Chapter 3. Business's Credibility Problem

Chapter 4. Whose Religion? Which Spirituality?

Chapter 5. Religious Republicanism and Right-Sized Communities

Chapter 6. The Company of Strangers

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612415920

9781282415928

1282415921

9780300149548

0300149549

OCLC:

666900662