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"If we don't get Sunday right, we won't get Monday--or any day of the workweek--right. The divided life is a temptation so built into our society, we may not even recognize it. Yet most of us fall prey to it. We either undervalue work, resenting it as simply a job, or we overvalue it as an identity-defining career. Michael Naughton, drawing on his background in both business and theology, proposes that the key to finding balance is another important human activity: leisure. In light of leisure--not mere amusement, but time for family, silence, prayer, and above all, worship--work becomes a space where men and women can find deep fulfilment. Naughton provides real-world examples of how businesses can promote authentic human flourishment and innovation through practices and policies that support leisure. In Getting Work Right Michael Naughton will change how you work--and rest." -- Publisher's description.

Business ethics. --- Business --- Capitalism --- Culture conflict --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church. --- Religion and capitalism --- Businesspeople --- Commercial ethics --- Corporate ethics --- Corporation ethics --- Professional ethics --- Wealth --- Moral and ethical aspects

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Capitalism --- Religion --- Religious aspects. --- History --- 241.65*3 --- -Religion --- -Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Theologische ethiek: internationale rechtvaardigheid --- Religious aspects --- -241.65*3 --- -Theologische ethiek: internationale rechtvaardigheid --- 241.65*3 Theologische ethiek: internationale rechtvaardigheid --- -Capitalism --- -241.65*3 Theologische ethiek: internationale rechtvaardigheid --- Religion, Primitive --- Religion and capitalism --- Capitalism - Religious aspects. --- Religion - History - 20th century.

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Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential, for maintaining the economic cycle of buying and selling.In The Debt of the Living, Elettra Stimilli returns to this idea of restraint as ascesis, by analyzing theological and philosophical understandings of debt drawn from a range of figures, including Saint Paul, Schmitt and Agamben, Benjamin and Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, and Foucault. Central to this analysis is the logic of "profit for profit's sake"—an aspect of Weber's work that Stimilli believes has been given insufficient attention. Following Foucault, she identifies this as the original mechanism of a capitalist dispositif that feeds not on a goal-directed rationality, but on the self-determining character of human agency. Ascesis is fundamental not because it is characterized by renunciation, but because the self-discipline it imposes converts the properly human quality of action without a predetermined goal into a lack, a fault, or a state of guilt: a debt that cannot be settled. Stimilli argues that this lack, which is impossible to fill, should be seen as the basis of the economy of hedonism and consumption that has governed global economies in recent years and as the premise of the current economy of debt.

Capitalism --- Religion and sociology. --- Asceticism. --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Religion and capitalism --- Religious aspects. --- Religion and sociology --- Asceticism --- Religious aspects --- E-books

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This book analyses the bearing of global monotheistic faiths towards the philosophy and practice of record keeping and accounting throughout history. The author offers a comprehensive discussion of the literal and figurative processes of taking account and ascribing accountability that link religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Chapters address theology and accounting in tandem with social behaviours to demonstrate how auditing and calculating customs permeate practising religions. This book first highlights how the four monotheisms have viewed and incorporated accounting historically, and then looks forward to the accounting debates, technologies and traditions in today’s world that derive from these religious customs. Drawing heavily on the writings of Max Weber and Werner Sombart, the author demonstrates that accounting and capitalism have religious roots far beyond the Protestant ethic.

Finance--History. --- Financial Accounting. --- Financial History. --- Religion and Society. --- Religion and capitalism --- Finance. --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Judaism. --- Religion and sociology. --- Accounting. --- Capitalism --- Religious aspects. --- Finance --- History. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Christianity --- Church history --- Jews --- Semites --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Accountancy --- Business enterprises --- Commerce --- Commercial accounting --- Financial accounting --- Business --- Bookkeeping --- Religion --- Accounting --- Finance—History.