Democracy, Religion, and Commerce - Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Law and Religion
Release date:	February 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Kathleen Flake • Nathan B Oman
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-231343-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Commercial law Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	1-03-231343-9
Barcode:	9781032313436

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