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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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What do world and regional religions say about economic morality?
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics presents
together for the first time the key tenets and teachings of
numerous faiths on this subject. In doing so, it also compares the
major religions in their positions on various social, business, and
policy topics, such as consumerism, competition, ecology, and
feminism. It concludes with an analytical synthesis that presents
and explains the patterns that emerge from the various religions
and themes explored across the Handbook's chapters. Together, these
chapters underscore a symbiosis between religion and economic life
as they mutually enrich each other. On the one hand, religion
improves the efficiency and efficacy of economic life by lowering
the frictional and monitoring costs of market operations. Virtuous
market participants internalize norms of good economic conduct and
behave accordingly. On the other hand, socioeconomic life offers
manifold enticements, comforts, and overindulgences that
paradoxically push devout adherents to invest themselves even
further in their beliefs. Socioeconomic life provides an
opportunity for religions to build strong faith communities and for
believers to reify their religion in their economic conduct. This
Handbook presents the richness, nuances, and rationale of religions
and their economic ethics. Readers will discover a remarkable
convergence in religions' teachings on economic morality, despite
their wide differences in dogma, ecclesial structures, and social
practices. This confluence can be traced to similarities in the
underlying anthropologies and cosmologies of these faiths. Finally,
this Handbook shows, the major faiths share far more values than
divide them, at least when it comes to economic morality.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Oxford Handbooks |
Release date: |
2024 |
Volume editors: |
Albino Barrera
(Professor of Economics and Theology)
• Roy C. Amore
(Professor of Political Science)
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Dimensions: |
246 x 171mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
744 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-289432-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-289432-3 |
Barcode: |
9780192894328 |
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