Democracy, religion, and commerce private markets and the public regulation of religion / edited by Kathleen Flake and Nathan B. Oman.
| Other author | Flake, Kathleen. |
| Other author | Oman, Nathan. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | vi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Law and religion |
| Contents | Introduction : democracy and religion in the market / Kathleen Flake & Nathan B. Oman -- Denominational uncoupling in a divestment age : religion in the history of the American University / Kathryn Lofton -- Markets, religion, & moral deliberation : the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate / Julia D. Mahoney -- Regulating religion in the public arena : lessons learned from global data collections / Roger Finke & Kerby Goff -- Shots not fired in the culture war : commercial litigation in contemporary rabbinical courts / Chaim Saiman -- Go tell It [to the IRS] : American suspicions around religious profit-making / Samuel D. Brunson -- The liberty of the will in theology permits the liberated markets of liberalism / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey -- Neutral principles and legal pluralism / V©Ưctor M. Mu©łiz-Fraticelli -- Markets as moral contexts : an account based in Catholic theological anthropology / Christina McRorie -- Regulating religious performance on the commercial stage / Nathan B. Oman. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022045207 |
| ISBN | 9781032313436 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032313467 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |