Religion and the Morality of the Market
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- Daromir Rudnyckyj, University of Victoria, British Columbia
- Filippo Osella, University of Sussex
- Date Published: March 2017
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107186057
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Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice, holding that market principles should be applied to human action at large. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the ascendance of market reason has been countered by calls for reforms of financial markets and for the consideration of moral values in economic practice. This book intervenes in these debates by showing how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions. It reveals how religious movements and organizations have reacted to the increasing prominence of market reason in unpredictable, and sometimes counterintuitive, ways. Using a range of examples from different countries and religious traditions, the book illustrates the myriad ways in which religious and market moralities are closely imbricated in diverse global contexts.
Read more- Allows for an exploration and theorization of economic practice through the lenses of the cultures and social relations in which it is embedded
- Furthers the theorization and comparative analysis of the relations of distinct forms of morality and religion to economies
- Provides a comparative framework for understanding how market practices and ideologies articulate with specific forms of religiosity or religious traditions
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- Date Published: March 2017
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107186057
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.58kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction. Assembling market and religious moralities Filippo Osella and Daromir Rudnyckyj
1. Risk, fate, fortune: the lives and times of customs inspectors in Southern China Julie Chu
2. Morality, markets and the gospel of prosperity Simon Coleman
3. Religious myths retold: masters and servants in India's corporate culture Nandini Gooptu
4. Divine markets: ethnographic notes on post-nationalism and moral consumption in India Sanjay Srivastava
5. Merit economies in neoliberal times: Halal troubles in contemporary Sri Lanka Farzana Haniffa
6. 'Structural adjustment Islam' and the religious economy in neoliberal Mali Benjamin Soares
7. Assembling Islam and liberalism: market freedom and the moral project of Islamic finance Daromir Rudnyckyj
8. Persistent forms: Catholic charity homes and the limits of neoliberal morality China Scherz
9. Marketising piety through charitable work: Islamic charities and the Islamisation of middle-class families in Indonesia Hilman Latief
10. 'A poor Muslim cannot be a good Muslim': Islam, charitable giving, and market logic in Sri Lanka Filippo Osella
11. 'For the God and for the country': agricultural migrations and their moralities in South India V. J. Varghese
12. 'The globalization of indifference': on Pope Francis, migration and global acedia Valentina Napolitano.
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