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From the sacred to the profane: connections between Christian theology and administration

Abstract

This theoretical essay aimed to make connections between Christian theology and administration. Starting from the ideas of Agamben (2008), attempts were made to establish relations between aspects of Christian theology and its trinitarian order with the characteristics of bureaucratic and flexible organizations. The intention was to unveil the sacredness and deity in these organizations, despite the idea of ​​secularization and rationality, in the Weberian sense related to them. From these relationships and the observation of a new kind of sacralization in these organizations, which maintains the divine ideology and makes economic power, money, technique, and formal logic sacred over everything else, this essay advocates for the desecration of the Sacred. It is understood that this can take place through reflections about inoperosity and its relationship with politics and aesthetics, which refer to a new possibility of using the ideas of pleasure, desire, and body.

Keywords:
Christian Theology; Bureaucracy; Flexible organizations; Power; Aesthetics

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