God & Work
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Two forces that built each other. Religion shaped how cultures valued labor — and the demands of work reshaped belief in turn. From Weber's Protestant ethic to Frankl's meaning-through-task, from Paul's tentmaking to Tolstoy's late turn toward spiritual labor: the long conversation about vocation, calling, and what a life of work is for. Read for the questions it keeps asking, not the answers.
- Educated91Tara Westover · 2018
- Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir91D. J. Waldie · 1996
- Bright Lights, Big City89Jay McInerney · 1984
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma89Bessel van der Kolk · 2014
- While You Were Out89Meg Kissinger · 2023
- The Erotic Mind87Jack Morin · 1995
- Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family86Thomas Mann · 1901
- When Breath Becomes Air86Paul Kalanithi · 2016
- Post Office84Charles Bukowski · 1971
- The Erotic Engine84Patchen Barss · 2011
- Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon83Robert Kurson · 2018
- Cultish82Amanda Montell · 2021
- Real Sex for Real Women81Laura Berman · 2008
- Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity77Diarmaid MacCulloch · 2024
- The Wrestler: A Life of Passion and the Pursuit of Greatness77Michael Fessler · 2016
- The History of Sexuality: Volume 159Foucault, Michel · 1978
- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life59Émile Durkheim · 1915
- Economy and Society: A New Translation59Max Weber · 2019
- Anna Karenina59Leo Tolstoy · 1877
- An Anomalous Jew: Paul Among Jews, Greeks, and Romans59Michael F. Bird · 2016
- Another Country59James Baldwin · 1962
- Comrade Loves of the Samurai59Ihara Saikaku · 1972
- Querelle59Jean Genet · 1953
- The Pillar of Salt59Albert Memmi · 1953
- The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy (selected nonfiction)59Leo Tolstoy · 2016
- The Well of Loneliness59Radclyffe Hall · 1928
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Economy Editions)52Max Weber
- Antifragile (Incerto)52Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Man's Search for Meaning52Viktor E. Frankl
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections52C. G. Jung
- Obedience to Authority (Perennial Classics)52Stanley Milgram
- Skin in the Game52Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Delusions of Crowds Why People Go Mad in Groups52William J. Bernstein
- The How of Happiness52Sonja Lyubomirsky
- the rules of sociological method52Émile Durkheim