The souls hunger : spirituality in corporations and in the teaching of business ethics / Daryl Koehn -- Drucker and Buber : the Germanic search for community as the meaning of the modern American corporation / Michael Schwartz -- Christian business ethics on the employment relation : mapping the terrain / Stewart W. Herman -- The spiritual corporation : a pragmatic perspective / Sandra Rosenthal, Rogene Buchholz -- Religion and business ethics : Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone / Patrick Primeaux, Gina Vega -- Toward a spirituality for the contemporary organization : implications for work, family and society / Gerald Cavanagh, Bradley Hanson, Kirk Hanson, Juan Hinojoso -- Discernment and strategic decision making : reflections for a spirituality of organizational leadership / Andre L. Delbecq, Elizabeth Liebert, John Mostyn, Paul C. Nutt, Gordan Walter -- Calling, new careers and spirituality : a reflective perspective for organizational leaders and professionals / Joseph W. Weiss, Michael F. Skelley, John C. Haughey, Douglas (Tim) Hall -- A Hindu perspective on spirituality and management / Arvind Sharma -- A comparative study of ethical decision making amongst managers in large private-sector U.K. companies / Dean Bartlett -- Analogical reasoning and the public philosophy of business / James E. Roper -- The risks of temptation / Michael Schwartz.

This volume contains articles and essays from internationally renowned authors and thinkers about the relationship among business, business ethics, religion, and spirituality. The authors included in this book represent multiple perspectives including Christian, Jewish, Hindu, philosophical, and others. This volume will be of interest to both academics and business practitioners who promote a contemporary re-integration of business and religious values and for those concerned about the dangers inherent in this project. In the end, this volume suggests that in a pluralistic and democratic society the only justification for going back home again to traditional religious texts is to help us all move forward together. If the real reason we're invoking religion in the public sphere is to strengthen our own religious communities and our own identities as members of particular religious communities, we are making a fundamental error in judgement. The goal of a legitimate religiously grounded business ethics can and must be the desire to critique, enhance, and strengthen the democratic values and institutions of society including business. These values include noncoercion, transparency, equal rights, pluralism, compromise, individual and communal responsibility, and many others.

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