Vocation and the Politics of Work

Vocation and the Politics of Work

Author: Jeffrey Scholes

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0739178903

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Since Martin Luther, vocations or callings have had a close relationship with daily work. It is a give-and-take relationship in which the meaning of a vocation typically negotiates with the kinds of work available (and vice-versa) at any given time. While "vocation language" still has currency in Western culture, today's predominant meaning of vocation has little to do with the actual work performed on a job. Jeffrey Scholes contends that recent theological treatments of the Protestant concept of vocation, both academic and popular, often unwittingly collude with consumer culture to circulate a concept of vocation that is detached from the material conditions of work. The result is a consumer-friendly vocation that is rendered impotent to inform and, if necessary, challenge the political norms of the workplace. For example, he classifies Rick Warren's concept of "purpose" in his best-selling book, The Purpose-Driven Life, as a functional equivalent of vocation that acts in this way. Other popular uses of vocation along with insights culled from traditional theology and consumer culture studies help Scholes reveal the current state of vocations in the West. Using recent scholarship in the field of political theology, he argues that resisting commodification is a possibility and a prerequisite for a "political vocation," if it is at all able to engage the norms that regulate and undermine the pursuit of justice in many modern workplaces.


Rulings

Rulings

Author: United States. Social Security Administration

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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Social security rulings on federal old-age, survivors, disability, and supplemental security income; and black lung benefits.


Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 958

ISBN-13:

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Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.


Report[s

Report[s

Author: Great Britain. Commmission on Employment of Children, Young Persons and Women in Agriculture (1867)

Publisher:

Published: 1868

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13:

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Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky

Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky

Author: Maurice Nicoll

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 1996-08-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780877289029

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When Maurice Nicholl was studying in Zurich, he met Jung, and Ouspensky. He went on to study with Gurdjieff, and from 1931 to his death in 1953, he began at Ouspensky's request, a programme of work devoted to passing on the ideas he had received. Reissued in hard cover, these five unedited commentaries are taken from the weekly lectures and talks Nicoll gave to his students in England and which were recorded verbatim; the sixth volume is an index produced by the Gurdjieff society Washington DC. These differ from Nicholl's more polished works - they are more concerned with directly applying certain deep ideas to daily life.