Democracy, Religion, and Commerce
Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion
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- English
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Democracy, Religion, and Commerce
Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Democracy and Religion in the Market
- 1 Denominational Uncoupling in a Divestment Age: Religion in the History of the American University
- 2 Markets, Religion, and Moral Deliberation: The Affordable Care Act’s Contraceptive Mandate
- 3 Regulating Religion in the Public Arena: Lessons Learned from Global Data Collections
- 4 Shots Not Fired in the Culture War: Commercial Litigation in Contemporary Rabbinical Courts
- 5 Go Tell It [to the IRS]: American Suspicions Around Religious Profit-Making
- 6 The Liberty of the Will in Theology Permits the Liberated Markets of Liberalism
- 7 Neutral Principles and Legal Pluralism
- 8 Markets as Moral Contexts: An Account Based in Catholic Theological Anthropology
- 9 Regulating Religious Performance on the Commercial Stage
- Index