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Book SynopsisExamines the workplace spirituality movement, and explores how it is both shaping and being shaped by American business culture. This book analyzes the enhanced benefits and support that workplace spirituality offers to employees, while exposing the conflicts it engenders, including diversity, religious freedom, and discrimination issues.
Trade ReviewLake Lambert III...offers a thoughtful, engagingly written, and well informed introduction to the recent upsurge in religious expression on the job...will make for rewarding reading for scholars of the post-World War II American business history. -- Bethany Moreton * Enterprise and Society *
Lambert does a very good job of summarizing the historical factors which have brought us to this present situation, and also of describing the various ways that spirituality is currently expressed in the workplace. -- Len MacRae * Studies in Religion *
Faith at work is emerging as an exciting and challenging new movement in corporate America. While there are hundreds of popular books written on the subject, Lamberts
Spirituality, Inc. is an excellent contribution to the small but growing book shelf of scholarly reflections on the movement. -- David W. Miller,author of God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement
Provides an exceptional treatment of a much neglected dimension of religious life in America. Drawing on theology, management studies, history, cultural studies and sociology, Lambert provides a powerful description of contemporary efforts to weave religious significance from the strands of our workaday lives. Anyone who is interested in popular religion in America, the meaning of work, and the challenge of meaning in the contemporary context will surely applaud the arrival of this book. -- Graham Reside,executive director, Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the Professions
In this deeply researched book, Lambert argues that millennials enjoy pondering spirituality and religion, even aloud and in public. * Harvard Business Review *
How we got from Calvinism and the Bible-based idea of vocation to the widespread and vaguely spiritual workplace of today is clearly told by Lambert in Spirituality, Inc. * Wall Street Journal *
Lambert is evenhanded in his analysis...[he] frames the topic so broadly and contextualizes it so historically and intellectually that I rethought the contours of the entire field. * The Journal of American History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Finding Meaning in Business 2 The Genealogy of Corporate Spirituality 3 The Making of a "Christian Company" 4 Jesus as a Management Guru 5 The Spiritual Education of a Manager 6 Team Chaplains, Life Coaches, and Whistling Referees 7 The Future of Workplace Spirituality Notes Select Bibliography Index About the Author
