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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aVaidyanathan, Brandon
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMercenaries and Missionaries :
_bCapitalism and Catholicism in the Global South /
_cBrandon Vaidyanathan.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (294 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. The Mercenary --
_t2. The Missionary --
_t3. Missionaries in a Mercenary World --
_t4. Finding Escape Velocity --
_t5. Belonging and Civic Commitment in the Neoliberal City --
_tConclusion --
_tAppendix: Methodology --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMercenaries 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aCapitalism
_xReligious aspects
_xCatholic Church.
650 0 _aCatholics
_xReligious life
_zIndia
_zBangalore.
650 0 _aCatholics
_xReligious life
_zUnited Arab Emirates
_zDubai.
650 0 _aConsumption (Economics)
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zIndia
_zBangalore.
650 0 _aConsumption (Economics)
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zUnited Arab Emirates
_zDubai.
650 0 _aProfessional employees
_xReligious life
_zIndia
_zBangalore.
650 0 _aProfessional employees
_xReligious life
_zUnited Arab Emirates
_zDubai.
650 0 _aReligion in the workplace
_zIndia
_zBangalore.
650 0 _aReligion in the workplace
_zUnited Arab Emirates
_zDubai.
650 0 _aWork
_xReligious aspects
_xCatholic Church.
650 4 _aBusiness (General).
650 4 _aReligious Studies.
650 4 _aSociology & Social Science.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion.
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653 _areligion, capitalism, globalism, Dubai, Bangalore.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501736247
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