The reformation of welfare : : the new faith of the labour market / / Tom Boland and Ray Griffin.

• Superior document: Policy Press scholarship online
• VerfasserIn: Boland, Tom,; Griffin, Ray,
• TeilnehmendeR: Griffin, Ray,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Bristol University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Policy Press scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (v, 212 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022).

Inspired by ideas from economic theology, this provocative book uncovers deep-rooted religious concepts and shows how they continue to influence contemporary views of work and unemployment.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- 1 Introduction: Paradoxes of Welfare -- Our approach -- The new trials of Job -- Governing the unemployed -- Cruel to be kind? -- Theology resurrected -- What is at stake in this book? -- Outline -- 2 Archaic Anthropology: The Presence of the Past in the Present -- Why religion? Iconoclasm and critique -- Archaic anthropology -- Nietzsche: modernity as Christian 'slave morality' -- Weber: spirits and ethics in history -- Foucault: historicizing government as pastoral power -- Agamben: signatures of theology -- Conclusion -- 3 Reform: Policies and the Polity -- Reformers -- The politics of history -- Back to the future -- The politics of policy -- Reformation as transformation -- Tests and trials -- Conclusion -- 4 Vocation: Doing God's Work -- The ethos of work -- The work-ethic -- Deprived and depraved -- Laborae est orare: to work is to pray -- Conclusion -- 5 Purgatory: The Ideal of Purifying Suffering -- Doing nothing -- Welfare before welfare -- Purgatory on earth -- The economy of suffering -- Conclusion -- 6 Pilgrimage: The Interminable Ritual of Jobseeking -- Pilgrim's persistence -- Life and pilgrimage -- Christian pilgrimage -- Job pilgrimages: penance, waymarks and the Promised Land -- Penitential pilgrims: first steps -- Waymarks: the path to self-transformation -- What goes on the road ... -- Conclusion -- 7 Curriculum Vitae: Confessions of Faith in the Labour Market -- Curriculum vitae -- Curriculum vitae of the CV -- Faith in the labour market -- Governing the curriculum vitae -- Templates for transformation -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion: Parables of Welfare -- Know your history -- Finding theology hidden in plain sight -- A provocation -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.