The 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 this book is spiritual work , used to describe forms of labour imbued with religious meaning and purpose. This book offers a detailed analysis of how religious interpretations of work reg