Religion and Moral Economy
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2022.e86473Keywords:
Capitalism, Debt, Economics, Functionalism, Gift, Morality, Poverty, Religion, Value, WealthAbstract
Religious stances toward moral economy have long provided important resources for critical reflection on economic life. When religious institutions seek to build alternatives to existing economic systems and financial practices, however, they also encounter a range of problems. In contrast to many secular critiques of economics, religious ones tend to be explicit about both their moral directives and the ontological assumptions on which they are grounded and give rise to distinctive economic habits and financial institutions. For this reason, th,eir ethnographic study sheds light on a range of more general anthropological questions about the sources of value, the limits of rational calculation, the morality of debt, the meaning of inequality, economic justice, and the legitimate purposes of an economy.
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