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Handbook of Spirituality and Business
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Handbook of Spirituality
and Business
Edited by
Luk Bouckaert
and
Laszlo Zsolnai
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Selection and editorial content © Luk Bouckaert and Laszlo Zsolnai 2011
Individual chapters © the contributors 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Handbook of spirituality and business / edited by Luk Bouckaert and
Laszlo Zsolnai.
p. cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Business – Religious aspects. 2. Business ethics. 3. Spiritual life.
I. Bouckaert, Luk, 1941– II. Zsolnai, Laszlo.
HF5388.H36 2011
201(cid:1).73—dc23 2011016959
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures ix
Acknowledgments x
Preface xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction
1 Spirituality and Business 3
Luk Bouckaert and Laszlo Zsolnai
Part I The Nature of Spirituality
2 Religion and Spirituality 11
Paul de Blot
3 Spirituality and Rationality 18
Luk Bouckaert
4 Neuroscience of Spirituality 26
Andrew B. Newberg and Daniel A. Monti
5 Transpersonal Psychology 34
John Drew
6 Moral Agency and Spiritual Intelligence 42
Laszlo Zsolnai
7 Gender and Spirituality 49
Veerle Draulans
8 Critique as a Notion of Spirituality 58
Suzan Langenberg
Part II Spiritually Inspired Economics
9 Aristotle and Economics 69
Robert Allinson
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10 Indian Management Philosophy 80
Sanjoy Mukherjee
11 Buddhist Economics 88
Laszlo Zsolnai
12 Confucianism and Taoism 95
Robert Allinson
13 Budo Philosophy 103
Henk Oosterling
14 Jewish Ethical Perspective on Income and
Wealth Distribution 111
Moses L. Pava
15 Catholic Social Teaching 118
Domènec Melé
16 Protestant Economic Principles and Practices 129
Jurjen Wiersma
17 Islamic Economics 138
Feisal Khan
18 Quaker Spirituality and the Economy 147
Laurie Michaelis
19 Personalism 155
Luk Bouckaert
20 Liberation Theology 163
Eelco van den Dool
21 Schumacher’s People-Centered Economics 171
Hendrik Opdebeeck
22 Bahá’i Perspective on Business and Organization 179
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma
23 Teaching of the Elders 187
Michael Bell
Part III Socioeconomic Problems
in Spiritual Perspective
24 Spiritual Meaning of the Economic Crisis 197
Carlos Hoevel
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Contents vii
25 Materialistic Value Orientation 204
Tim Kasser
26 Avarice 212
Stefano Zamagni
27 Globalization 219
Jean-Jacques Rosé and François Lépineux
28 Deep Ecology 227
Knut Johannessen Ims
29 Climate Change and Spirituality 236
Laurie Michaelis
30 Ecological Sustainability and Organizational Functioning 245
John Adams
31 Responsibility for Future Generations 254
Laszlo Zsolnai
32 Authenticity 261
David Boyle
33 Frugality 269
Luk Bouckaert, Hendrik Opdebeeck and Laszlo Zsolnai
34 Civil Economy 277
Stefano Zamagni
Part IV Business Spirituality
35 Spiritual-Based Leadership 287
Peter Pruzan
36 Deep Leadership and Spirit-Driven
Business Organizations 295
Gerrit Broekstra and Paul de Blot
37 Transformation Management 305
Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer
38 Mindfulness in Business 315
Sharda Nandram and Margot Esther Borden
39 Voicing Meaningfulness at Work 324
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma and Lani Morris
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40 Multinational Companies and the Common Good 334
François Lépineux and Jean-Jacques Rosé
41 Corporate Conscience 342
Kenneth E. Goodpaster
Part V Good Practices and Working Models
42 The New Role of Business in Society 351
Olivier F. Williams
43 Self-Assessment and Improvement
Process for Organizations 359
T. Dean Maines
44 Edgewalker Organizations 369
Judi Neal
45 The Economy of Communion 378
Luigino Bruni and Tibor Héjj
46 Ethical Branding 387
Mike J. Thompson
47 Fair Trade Movement 396
Zsolt Boda
48 Ethical Banking 404
Frans de Clerck
Index 411
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Tables and Figures
Tables
11.1 Modern Western economics versus
Buddhist economics 93
15.1 Main documents of Catholic Social Teaching 120
28.1 Four types of society 234
30.1 Some dimensions of a sustainable consciousness 249
31.1 Future generations indicators 258
31.2 The performance of European countries for
future generations in 2005 259
38.1 The road map to well-being 321
Figures
7.1 Religion and gender 50
11.1 Buddhist symbol of no-self 89
25.1 Circumplex structure of life aspirations based
on 1,800 college students from 15 cultures 206
36.1 Shallow leadership 296
36.2 Deep-leadership model 297
36.3 Being and Doing in organizational context 301
37.1 Examples of cultural forces 307
39.1 Holistic development model 328
41.1 Imperatives of institutional leadership 344
43.1 Catholic identity matrix 363
43.2 Sample questions from the Catholic Identity Matrix 364
43.3 Sample scorecard: cell 2.5 (holistic care/measurement) 365
44.1 Organizational orientation 372
45.1 Levels of identity 383
45.2 The Holistic Stakeholder Value Matrix 384
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