Ronald Purser

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following important information is missing from this article or section:
The biography is missing
Help Wikipedia by researching and pasting it .

Ronald E. Purser (* 1956 ) is Professor of Management at the School of Business at the University of San Francisco , author and podcaster. Among other things, he critically deals with the mindfulness movement and Buddhism in the West .

Criticism of the mindfulness movement

Purser is a practicing Zen Buddhist and describes himself as an ordained Dharma teacher in Taego Zen . He criticized the mindfulness movement in the West in various scientific and non-scientific publications . His main thesis is that mindfulness as an originally spiritual concept is detached from its religious and ethical context and used for the purpose of self-optimization and performance improvement and is offered like a commodity. Mindfulness enters into a symbiosis with the capitalist economic system. Instead of transforming individuals and organizations, mindfulness degenerates into a "banal, therapeutic self-help technique" that solidifies the neoliberal performance principle.

Publications (selection)

  • Social Creativity, Vol. 1 & 2 (Perspectives on Creativity) . New York, 1997, ISBN 978-1572731288
  • The Self-Managing Organization: How Leading Companies Are Transforming The Work of Teams For Real Impact: Transforming Team Work Through Participative Design . New York, 1998, ISBN 978-0684837345 .
  • Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement . New York 2017, ISBN 978-3319689180 .
  • Handbook of Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness . New York, 2019, ISBN 978-3030095161 .
  • McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality . London 2019, ISBN 978-1912248315 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://cob.sfsu.edu/directory/ronald-purser
  2. ↑ http://www.mindfulcranks.com/meet-the-cranks
  3. ↑ https://www.ronpurser.com/author
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/14/the-mindfulness-conspiracy-capitalist-spirituality
personal data
SURNAME Purser, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Purser, Ronald E .; Purser, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist, Buddhism teacher, and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1956