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As this book has already presented, many authors have discussed various factors impacting faith integration in the workplace. A number have presented frameworks that examine faith integration from a theological perspective (Keller, 2012; Stevens, 2000; Veith Jr, 2011) or provided a theological or doctrinal description of work (Volf, 2001; Whelchel, 2011; Witherington III, 2011), while others have categorized specific ways the individual Christian can integrate their faith in the workplace (Beckett, 2009; Day, 2008; Kinjerski, 2013; Lynn, Naughton, & Vanderveen, 2012; Miller, 2007; Miller & Ewest, 2015). Some authors have included organizational influences (Miller & Ewest, 2013), while others have considered demographic variables such as age and gender, as well as other variables such as professional status, organizational size, and denominational strictness (Lynn, Naughton, & Vanderveen, 2010). Such approaches are helpful, but do not easily depict the comprehensive and overlapping set of factors that contribute to whether or the extent to which people actually integrate faith in the workplace.
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Buszka, S.G., Ewest, T. (2020). The Faith and Work Integration Spheres of Influence Model (FWSI). In: Integrating Christian Faith and Work. Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22914-6_8
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