Is the Market Moral? Protestant Assessments of Market Society

Is the market moral? Do different Protestant traditions have competing views of “market society”? Despite the increasing diffusion of market logics in American society, scholars of religion have little empirical data on these questions. Employing discourse analysis of market-related topics in two pr...

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Authors: Steensland, Brian (Author) ; Schrank, Zachary (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2011
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 257-277
Further subjects:B Corporate Responsibility
B Consumerism
B Market transitions
B Economic attitudes
B Protestantism
B Voluntarism
B The free market
B Economic discourse
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