ISBN:
9781032313436
,
9781032313467
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 202 Seiten
Series Statement:
Law and religion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Democracy, religion, and commerce
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Flake, Kathleen Democracy, Religion, and Commerce
DDC:
342.7308/52
Keywords:
Religion and state Economic aspects
;
Religion and law
;
United States Religion
;
Ecomomic aspects
;
United States Religion
;
Ecomomic aspects
Abstract:
"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 in 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"--
DOI:
10.4324/9781003309291
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