Politics of Spiritual Work in Christian Movements
This book examines how three conservative Christian movements – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Conservative Laestadians, and the Old Order Amish – attribute spiritual meanings to both paid employment and voluntary work, and how work functions as a tool of governance within these communities. A central concept developed in the book is spiritual work, used to describe forms of labour imbued with religious mea...
This book examines how three conservative Christian movements – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Conservative Laestadians, and the Old Order Amish – attribute spiritual meanings to both paid employment and voluntary work, and how work functions as a tool of governance within these communities. A central concept developed in the book is spiritual work, used to describe forms of labour imbued with religious mea...
