TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vaidyanathan,Brandon
TI  - Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South 
SN  - 9781501736247
AV  - HD8038.I42 
U1  - 331.7/1095357 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Catholics
KW  - Religious life
KW  - India
KW  - Bangalore
KW  - United Arab Emirates
KW  - Dubai
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Professional employees
KW  - Religion in the workplace
KW  - Work
KW  - Business (General)
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - Sociology & Social Science
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - religion, capitalism, globalism, Dubai, Bangalore
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Mercenary --; 2. The Missionary --; 3. Missionaries in a Mercenary World --; 4. Finding Escape Velocity --; 5. Belonging and Civic Commitment in the Neoliberal City --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Methodology --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Mercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using more than two hundred interviews in Bangalore and Dubai, Brandon Vaidyanathan explains how and why global corporate professionals straddle conflicting moral orientations in the realms of work and religion. Seeking to place the spotlight on the role of religion in debates about the cultural consequences of capitalism, Vaidyanathan finds that an "apprehensive individualism" generated in global corporate workplaces is supported and sustained by a "therapeutic individualism" cultivated in evangelical-charismatic Catholicism.Mercenaries and Missionaries uncovers a symbiotic relationship between these individualisms and shows how this relationship unfolds in two global cities—Dubai, in non-democratic UAE, which holds what is considered the world's largest Catholic parish, and Bangalore, in democratic India, where the Catholic Church, though afflicted by ethnic and religious violence, runs many of the city's elite educational institutions. Vaidyanathan concludes that global corporations and religious communities create distinctive cultures, with normative models that powerfully orient people to those cultures—the Mercenary in cutthroat workplaces, and the Missionary in churches. As a result, global corporate professionals in rapidly developing cities negotiate starkly opposing moral commitments in the realms of work and religion, which in turn shapes their civic commitment to these cities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501736247
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501736247
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501736247/original
ER  -