Democracy, Religion, and Commerce: Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion (Law and Religion)

Synopsis

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 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.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000849639

Related ISBNs:

9781003309291, 9781032313436, 9781032313467

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/13/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Kathleen Flake and Nathan B. Oman

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Kathleen Flake

Edited by:

Nathan B. Oman