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Democracy, religion, and commerce
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- Book Synopsis
- This collection considers the relationship between religion, state, and market. In so doing, it also illustrates that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Though expressed as a simile, with religious freedom functioning like market freedom, "free market religion" has achieved the status of general knowledge about the nature of religion as either good or bad. It legislates good religion as that which operates according to free market principles: it is private, with no formal relationship to government; and personal: a matter of belief and conscience. As naturalized elements of historically contingent and discursively maintained beliefs about religion, these criteria have ethical and regulatory force. Thus, in culture and law, the effect of the metaphor has become instrumental, not merely descriptive. This volume seeks to productively complicate and invite further analysis of this easy conflation of democracy, religion, and the market. It invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider more intentionally the extent to which markets are implicated and illuminate the place of religion in public life. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of law and religion, ethics, and economics.
- About The Author
- Kathleen Flake is Richard Lyman Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies and Co-Director, Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, University of Virginia, USA.Nathan B. Oman is Rollins Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Law and Markets, William and Mary Law School, USA.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781032313467
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (07 October 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 202
- Weight
- 340 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 11 mm
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