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The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary offers a triple meaning for reclaim:1 brings back (waste land, etc.) to useful condition, a state of cultivation, etc.,2 reform (a person): reclaim a man from error/vice,3 demand that something be given back.
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Hans Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy: Caring for Ecology, Humanity and Religion (London: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The making of the Modern Identity (London: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958); id. Politik als Beruf (1919; Tübingen, 1971), and Wissenschaft als Beruf (1919; Tübingen, 1973).
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van Hoogstraten, H.D. (2012). Reclaiming the Concept of Calling. In: Okonkwo, B.C. (eds) Finding Meaning in Business. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295125_2
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