CLAUDIA LIEBELT: For example, many carers wrote poems or listened to (‘Christian’) music for long hours at work.
CLAUDIA LIEBELT: she derived comfort and even happiness from reading the Bible, studying Hebrew and praying during the long, boring afternoon hours at her workplace, when her employer rested or slept.
CLAUDIA LIEBELT: taking care of elderly Jews was a form of blessing as well as an act that produced an especially powerful blessing from God.
CLAUDIA LIEBELT: In their aim to develop an inner self that is pure, controlled and serene, Filipina evangelical migrants recall the Protestants analysed by Max Weber (2002), who engaged in what Weber called a worldly asceticism.
