1st Edition

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

Edited By Kathleen Flake, Nathan B. Oman Copyright 2023
210 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Democracy and Religion in the Market

Kathleen Flake & Nathan B. Oman

Chapter 1: Denominational Uncoupling in a Divestment Age: Religion in the History of the American University

Kathryn Lofton

Chapter 2: Markets, Religion, & Moral Deliberation: The Affordable Care Act’s Contraceptive Mandate

Julia D. Mahoney

Chapter 3: Regulating Religion in the Public Arena: Lessons Learned from Global Data Collections

Roger Finke & Kerby Goff

Chapter 4: Shots Not Fired in the Culture War: Commercial Litigation in Contemporary Rabbinical Courts

Chaim Saiman

Chapter 5: Go Tell It [to the IRS]: American Suspicions Around Religious Profit-Making

Samuel D. Brunson

Chapter 6: The Liberty of the Will in Theology Permits the Liberated Markets of Liberalism

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Chapter 7: Neutral Principles and Legal Pluralism

Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli

Chapter 8: Markets as Moral Contexts: An Account Based in Catholic Theological Anthropology

Christina McRorie

Chapter 9: Regulating Religious Performance on the Commercial Stage

Nathan B. Oman

Biography

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.