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China 2020: How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade, by Michael A. Santoro. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009

depths of employee belief and faith? Morality often involves promise-keeping. How much can a business realistically guarantee, in the way of a wholistic spirituality? In all fairness, it should be noted that Lambert does raise this last question, even if in a utilitarian way. He ends the book with a short discussion of “Uncertainty Ahead” and opines that corporate spirituality efforts likely will be cut back unless they can be shown to increase productivity and profit (Lambert 2009: 174–75). This qualifier well reflects the overall tone of his presentation. Where others might signal caution, Lake Lambert sees a yeasty and promising intersection of spirituality and business. Yet he approaches workplace spirituality with a sense of bemused distance, even irony, rather than the naïve fervor of true belief. Such hedging enhances the value of his compact text as a useful guide for those who want to explore, without hype, how religion and spirituality find expression in business. His tone suggests that a higher level of skepticism is in order, one that refrains from categorical judgment about the entire “bloomin’, buzzing confusion” of the workplace spirituality movement. Rather, each expression of workplace spirituality should be taken up on its own merits and tested for the genuineness of whatever “elective affinities” may be at work.