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

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Kathleen Flake (University of Virginia, USA) Nathan B. Oman (William & Mary Law School, USA)

Democracy, Religion, and Commerce

Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion

Kathleen Flake (University of Virginia, USA), Nathan B. Oman (William & Mary Law School, USA)

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Routledge
13 March 2023

Religion: general; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Systems of law; Commercial law; Constitutional & administrative law

Series: Law and Religion

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.

Edited by: Kathleen Flake (University of Virginia USA), Nathan B. Oman (William & Mary Law School, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 548g
ISBN: 9781032313436
ISBN 10: 1032313439
Series: Law and Religion
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 13 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathleen Flake is Richard Lyman Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies and Co-Director, Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, University of Virginia, USA. Nathan B. Oman is Rollins Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Law and Markets, William and Mary Law School, USA.