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The Market as God (Paperback)
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"Essential and thoroughly engaging...Harvey Cox's ingenious sense
of how market theology has developed a scripture, a liturgy, and
sophisticated apologetics allow us to see old challenges in a
remarkably fresh light." -E. J. Dionne, Jr. We have fallen in
thrall to the theology of supply and demand. According to its
acolytes, the Market is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It
can raise nations and ruin households, and comes complete with its
own doctrines, prophets, and evangelical zeal. Harvey Cox brings
this theology out of the shadows, demonstrating that the way the
world economy operates is shaped by a global system of values that
can be best understood as a religion. Drawing on biblical sources
and the work of social scientists, Cox points to many parallels
between the development of Christianity and the Market economy. It
is only by understanding how the Market reached its "divine" status
that can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of
humanity. "Cox argues that...we are now imprisoned by the dictates
of a false god that we ourselves have created. We need to break
free and reclaim our humanity." -Forbes "Cox clears the space for a
new generation of Christians to begin to develop a more public and
egalitarian politics." -The Nation
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