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The Practices of Happiness - Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing (Hardcover)
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The Practices of Happiness - Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via
www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform,
www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part
of the OAPEN-UK research project. There is growing evidence that
rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have
not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and
happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead
by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature
within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned
to chart not only the underlying trends in recorded levels of
happiness, but to consider what factors, if any, contribute to
positive and sustainable experiences of well-being and quality of
life. Increasingly, such research is focusing on the importance of
values and beliefs in human satisfaction or quality of life; but
the specific contribution of religion to these trends is relatively
under-examined. This unique collection of essays seeks to rectify
that omission, by identifying the nature and role of the religious
contribution to wellbeing. A unique collection of nineteen leading
scholars from the field of economics, psychology, public theology
and social policy have been brought together in this volume to
explore the religious contribution to the debate about happiness
and well-being. These essays explore the religious dimensions to a
number of key features of well-being, including marriage, crime and
rehabilitation, work, inequality, mental health, environment,
participation, institutional theory, business and trade. They
engage particularly closely with current trends in economics in
identifying alternative models of economic growth which focus on
its qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. This
distinctive volume brings to public notice the nature and role of
religion's contribution to wellbeing, including new ways of
measurement and evaluation. As such, it represents a valuable and
unprecedented resource for the development of a broad-based
religious contribution to the field. It will be of particular
relevance for those who are concerned about the continuing debate
about personal and societal well-being, as well as those who are
interested in the continuing significance of religion for the
future of public policy.
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