Neoliberal Mythmaking: On “Well-Being” as the New Protestant Work Ethic
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To what extent has modernization transformed those institutions and discourses commonly called ‘religions,’ and vice versa? How can we talk about those transformations without employing a naïve theory of secularization or privatization? And what is the connection between capitalism, modern ‘spirituality,’ and discourses on ‘well-being’? Situated within the tradition of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, this paper will propose how we might begin to answer such questions, and will consider a contemporary Sufi text as an example of one site where these questions converge.
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Bourdieu Pierre Nice Richard Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste 1984 Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press
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Carrette Jeremy & King Richard Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion 2005 London Routledge
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Durkheim Emile Halls W. D. The Division of Labor in Society 1997 New York Free Press
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Giddens Anthony Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age 1991 Stanford Stanford University Press
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Levi-Strauss Claude Needham Rodney Totemism 1963 Boston Beacon
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Lincoln Bruce Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 2006 Chicago University of Chicago Press
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Lofton Kathryn Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon 2011 Berkeley University of California Press
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Luckmann Thomas The Invisible Religion: The Problem of Religion in Modern Society 1967 New York Macmillan
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Martin Craig Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion, and the Private Sphere 2010 London Equinox
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Miller Peter & Nikolas Rose Governing the Present 2008 Cambridge Polity Press
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Rath Tom & Harter Jim Well-Being: The Five Essential Elements 2010 New York Gallup Press
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Rose Nikolas Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood 1998 Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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Witteveen H. J. Sufism in Action: Spiritualizing the Economy 2003 London Vega
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See Craig Martin, Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion, and the Private Sphere (London: Equinox, 2010).
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Thomas Luckmann, The Invisible Religion: The Problem of Religion in Modern Society (New York: Macmillan, 1967).
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Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society (trans. W. D. Halls; New York: Free Press, 1997).
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Claude Levi-Strauss, Totemism (trans. Rodney Needham; Boston: Beacon, 1963).
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Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), 210.
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Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (trans. Richard Nice; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984).
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Bruce Lincoln, Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 59.
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Tom Rath and Jim Harter, Well-Being: The Five Essential Elements (New York: Gallup Press, 2010).
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Nikolas Rose, Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self (2nd ed.; London: Free Association Books, 1999).
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Nikolas Rose, Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose, Governing the Present (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).
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Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991).
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Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion (London: Routledge, 2005).
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Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
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H. J. Witteveen, Sufism in Action: Spiritualizing the Economy (London: Vega, 2003).
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Neoliberal Mythmaking: On “Well-Being” as the New Protestant Work Ethic
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Abstract
To what extent has modernization transformed those institutions and discourses commonly called ‘religions,’ and vice versa? How can we talk about those transformations without employing a naïve theory of secularization or privatization? And what is the connection between capitalism, modern ‘spirituality,’ and discourses on ‘well-being’? Situated within the tradition of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, this paper will propose how we might begin to answer such questions, and will consider a contemporary Sufi text as an example of one site where these questions converge.
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