38. Rayna Katz, “Planners Face a Different-Looking Future, Reports Say,”
Meeting News,
Sept. 18, 2000, [http://www.allbusiness.com/transportation-communications-electric-gas/42271801.html] http://www.allbusiness.com/transportation-communications-electric-gas/42271801.html.
39. [http://www.cprcoaching.com/employee_retention_team_building.html] http://www.cprcoaching.com/employee_retention_team_building.html.
40. Spencer Johnson,
Who Moved My Cheese?
(New York: Putnam, 1998), 35, 71.
42. Jill Andresky Fraser,
White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America
(New York: Norton, 2001), 195.
43. John Balzar, “Losing a Job: From Great Depression to Reinvention,
Los Angeles Times,
Oct. 20, 1993.
44. Lane, “Company of One.”
45. Fraser,
White-Collar Sweatshop
, 191, 193.
46. Jennifer M. Howard, “Can Teams Survive Downsizing?”, [http://www.qualitydigest.com/may/downsize.html] http://www.qualitydigest.com/may/downsize.html.
47. Paul Solman, “The Right Choice?,”
PBS Online NewsHour
, March 22, 1996, [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/att_layoffs_3-22.html] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/att_layoffs_3-22.html.
48. [http://www.thesykesgrp.com/Teamtrg01.htm] http://www.thesykesgrp.com/Teamtrg01.htm.
49. Fraser,
White-Collar Sweatshop
, 191–92.
FIVE. God Wants You to Be Rich
1
. Abe Levy, “Megachurches Growing in Number and Size,” AP, via [http://SFGate.com] SFGate.com, Feb. 3, 2006, [http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13512/megachurchesgrowinginnumberandsize] http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13512/megachurchesgrowinginnumberandsize.
2
. David Van Biema and Jeff Chu, “Does God Want You to Be Rich?”
Time,
Sept. 18, 2006, 48.
3
. Gabriel N. Lischak, “The Rise of the ‘Megachurch’: A New Phenomenon Is Taking Shape in America—One That Is Radically Redefining the ‘Christian Experience,’ ” Jan. 6, 2006, [http://www.realtruth.org/articles/418-trotm-print.html] http://www.realtruth.org/articles/418-trotm-print.html.
4
. [http://www.thechurchreport.com/mag_article.php?mid=875&mname=January] http://www.thechurchreport.com/mag_article.php?mid=875&mname=January.
5
. William Lee Miller, “Some Negative Thinking about Norman Vincent Peale,” originally published in
Reporter
, Jan. 13, 1955, [http://george.loper.org/trends/2005/Aug/955.html] http://george.loper.org/trends/2005/Aug/955.html.
6
. Joel Osteen,
Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
(New York: Faith Words, 2004), 183.
7
. Ted Olsen, “Weblog: Kenneth Hagin, ‘Word of Faith’ Preacher, Dies at 86,” Sept. 1, 2003, [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/septemberweb-only/9-22-11.0.html?start=1] http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/septemberweb-only/9-22-11.0.html?start=1.
8
. Osteen,
Your Best Life Now
, 5, 101, 41.
10. Dennis Voskuil,
Mountains into Goldmines: Robert Schuller and the Gospel of Success
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), 80.
11. Chris Lehmann, “Pentecostalism for the Exurbs: Joel Osteen’s God Really Wants You to Dress Well, Stand Up Straight, and Get a Convenient Parking Space,” Jan. 2, 2008, [http://www.slate.com/id/2180590/] http://www.slate.com/id/2180590/.
12. Edwene Gaines,
The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance
(New York: Rodale, 2005), 88.
13. D. R. McConnell,
A Different Gospel
(Peabody: Hendrickson, 1988).
14. Shayne Lee, “Prosperity Theology: T. D. Jakes and the Gospel of the Almighty Dollar,”
Cross Currents
, June 22, 2007, 227.
15. Milmon F. Harrison, “Prosperity Here and Now: Synthesizing New Thought with Charismatic Christianity, the Word of Faith Movement Promises Its Members the Good Life,” [http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2000/05/Prosperity-Here-And-Now.aspx] http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2000/05/Prosperity-Here-And-Now.aspx.
17. Van Biema and Chu, “Does God Want You to Be Rich?,” 48.
18. See John Jackson,
PastorPreneur: Pastors and Entrepreneurs Answer the Call
(Friendswood: Baxter, 2003).
19. Quoted in Scott Thumma, “Exploring the Megachurch Phenomenon: Their Characteristics and Cultural Context,” [http://hirr.hartsem.edu/bookshelf/thumma_article2.html] http://hirr.hartsem.edu/bookshelf/thumma_article2.html.
20. Bill Hybels, “Commentary: Building a Church on Marketing Surveys,” excerpted from
Christian News
, July 1991, [http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hybels/news.htm] http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hybels/news.htm.
21. Witold Rybczynski, “An Anatomy of Megachurches: The New Look for Places of Worship,” Oct. 10, 2005, [http://www.slate.com/id/2127615/] http://www.slate.com/id/2127615/.
22. Frances Fitzgerald, “Come One, Come All: Building a Megachurch in New En gland,”
New Yorker
, Dec. 3, 2007, 46; Denis Haack, “Bruce Bezaire: Meticulous Renderings of Glory,” [http://ransomfellowship.org/articledetail.asp?AID=21&B=Denis%20Haack&TID=6] http://ransomfellowship.org/articledetail.asp?AID=21&B=Denis%20Haack&TID=6.
23. Quoted in Lischak, “Rise of the ‘Megachurch.’ ”
24. Quoted in Van Biema and Chu, “Does God Want You to Be Rich?”
25. “Jesus, CEO,”
Economist
, Dec. 20, 2005, [http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=5323597] http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=5323597.
26. Felix Salmon, “Market Movers,” Jan. 24, 2008, [http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/01/24/davos-surprise-rick-warren] http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/01/24/davos-surprise-rick-warren; Malcolm Gladwell, “The Cellular Church: How Rick Warren’s Congregation Grew,”
New Yorker,
Sept. 12, 2005, 60.
27. Gustav Niebuhr, “Megachurches,”
New York Times,
April 18, 1995.
28. Osteen,
Your Best Life Now
, 11.
29. Dennis Tourish and Ashly Pinnington, “Transformational Leadership, Corporate Cultism, and the Spirituality Paradigm: An Unholy Trinity in the Workplace?,”
Human Relations
55 (2002): 147.
31. Quoted in Voskuil,
Mountains into Goldmines
, 78.
32. Osteen,
Your Best Life Now
, 298.
SIX. Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness
1
. Martin E. P. Seligman,
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
(New York: The Free Press, 2002), 24; Dorothy Wade, “Happy Yet?,”
Australian Magazine
, Oct. 22, 2005, 39.
2
. Strawberry Saroyan, “Happy Days Are Here Again,”
Elle
, Dec. 1998.
3
. Quoted in Jennifer Senior,
“
Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness,”
New York
, July 17, 2006.
4
. Robert Biswas-Diener and Ben Dean,
Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients
(New York: Wiley, 2007), 12, 31.
5
. John Templeton Foundation, Capabilities Report, 2002, 82.
6
. Patrick B. Kavanaugh, Lyle D. Danuloff, Robert E. Erard, Marvin Hyman, and Janet L. Pallas, “Psychology: A Profession and Practice at Risk,” July 1994, [http://www.academyprojects.org/lempa1.htm] www.academyprojects.org/lempa1.htm; Ilana DeBare, “Career Coaches Help You Climb to the Top: ‘Personal Trainers’ for Workers New Fiscal Fitness Craze,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
May 4, 1998.
7
. Seligman,
Authentic Happiness
, ix.
8
. Joshua Freedman, “An Interview with Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.,”
EQ Today
, Fall 2000 [http://www.eqtoday.com/optimism/seligman.html] http://www.eqtoday.com/optimism/seligman.html.
9
. Wade, “Happy Yet?,” 39.
10. Ed Diener and Martin E. P. Seligman
, “
Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Wellbeing,”
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
5, no. 1 (2004).
11. John Lanchester, “Pursuing Happiness: Two Scholars Explore the Fragility of Contentment,”
New Yorker,
Feb. 27, 2006.
12. Seligman,
Authentic Happiness
, 39.
13. Ibid., 28, 38, 43, 103.
18. Barbara Held, “The Negative Side of Positive Psychology,”
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
44 (Winter 2004): 9–46.
19. Biswas-Diener and Dean,
Positive Psychology Coaching
, 31.
20. Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King, and Ed Diener, “The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?,”
Psychological Bulletin
131 (2005): 803–55.
21. Mike McGrath, “When Back Pain Starts in Your Head: Is Repressed Anger Causing Your Back Pain?” [http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/when-back-pain-starts-in-your-head/727b7e643f803110VgnVCM10000013281eac____/health/conditions.treatments/back.pain] http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/when-back-pain-starts-in-your-head/727b7e643f803110VgnVCM10000013281eac____/health/conditions.treatments/back.pain.
22. Seligman,
Authentic Happiness
, 3. Deborah D. Danner, David A. Snowdon, and Wallace V. Friesen, “Findings from the Nun Study, University of Kentucky,”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
80 (2001): 804–13.
23. Gina Kolata, “Research Links Writing Style to the Risk of Alzheimer’s,”
New York Times,
Feb. 21, 1996, [http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/21/us/research-links-writing-style-to-the-risk-of-alzheimers.html?sec=health] http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/21/us/research-links-writing-style-to-the-risk-of-alzheimers.html?sec=health.
24. LeeAnne Harker and Dacher Keltner, “Expressions of Positive Emotion in Women’s College Yearbook Pictures and Their Relationship to Personality and Life Outcomes across Adulthood,” University of California, Berkeley, [http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications/harker.jpsp.2001.pdf] http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications/harker.jpsp.2001.pdf; Jeremy Freese, Sheri Meland, and William Irwin, “Expressions of Positive Emotion in Photographs, Personality, and Later-Life Marital and Health Outcomes,”
Journal of Research in Personality
, 2006, [http://www.jeremyfreese.com/docs/FreeseMelandIrwin%20-%20JRP%20-%20ExpressionsPositiveEmotionInPhotographs.pdf] http://www.jeremyfreese.com/docs/FreeseMelandIrwin%20-%20JRP%20-%20ExpressionsPositiveEmotionInPhotographs.pdf.
25. Glenn V. Ostir, Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, and Kyriakos S. Markides, “Onset of Frailty in Older Adults and the Protective Role of Positive Affect,”
Psychology and Aging
19 (2004): 402–8.
26. Seligman,
Authentic Happiness
, 40.
27. James Coyne et al., “Emotional Well-Being Does Not Predict Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Patients,”
Cancer,
Dec. 1, 2007; Merritt McKinney, “Optimism Doesn’t Improve Lung Cancer Survival,”
Reuters Health,
Feb. 9, 2004.
28. See, for example, L. B. Kubansky and I. Kawachi, “Going to the Heart of the Matter: Do Negative Emotions Cause Coronary Heart Disease?,”
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
48 (2000): 323–37.
29. Held, “Negative Side of Positive Psychology.”
31. Melissa Healy, “Truth Is, It’s Best If They Know,” Oct. 30, 2006, [http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-realists30oct30,0,141646.story?coll=lahomehealth] http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-realists30oct30,0,141646.story?coll=lahomehealth.
32. Derek M. Isaacowitz, with M. E. P. Seligman, “Is Pessimistic Explanatory Style a Risk Factor for Depressive Mood among Community-Dwelling Older Adults?,”
Behaviour Research and Therapy
39 (2001): 255–72.
33. Mary Duenwald, “Power of Positive Thinking Extends, It Seems, to Aging,”
New York Times
, Nov. 19, 2002.
35. Quoted in B. Held, “The ‘Virtues’ of Positive Psychology,”
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
25 (2005): 1–34.
36. Sarah D. Pressman and Sheldon Cohen, “Does Positive Affect Influence Health?”
Psychological Bulletin
131 (2005): 925–71.
37. [http://esi-topics.com/fbp/2007/june07-Pressman_Cohen.html] http://esi-topics.com/fbp/2007/june07-Pressman_Cohen.html.
38. Seligman,
Authentic Happiness
, 40; Suzanne C. Segerstrom, “Optimism, Goal Conflict, and Stressor-Related Immune Change,”
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
24, no. 5 (2001).