Religion and the social economy: elective affinities
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Religion and the social economy: elective affinities |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2177 |
Book Title | Multiculturalism and the convergence of faith and practical wisdom in modern society |
Authors | |
Author | Brown, Malcolm David |
Editors | Pascal, Ana-Maria |
Page Range | 220-235 |
Series | Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies |
Chapter Number | 10 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISBN | 9781522519553 |
9781522519560 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1955-3.ch010 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.igi-global.com/book/multiculturalism-convergence-faith-practical-wisdom/169333 |
Abstract | This chapter presents 'elective affinities' between, on the one hand, strands in contemporary religiosity that seek to rediscover or reinterpret older religiosities in a contemporary context and idiom (e.g. liberation theology, multi-faith activity, the SBNR - spiritual but not religious - phenomenon, and the new monasticism), and, on the other hand, the contemporary phenomenon of the social economy (social business, social enterprise, and the sharing economy). As the social economy occupies a space between the values of capitalism and the strategies of socialism, rooted in a civil society that strives to maintain a freedom from both the economy and the state, so these religious phenomena occupy a space between secularisation and sacralisation, between a separation of church and state and a subsumption of state under church. They are all concerned with social justice now (rather than after the revolution), and bear witness to a potential for religious and societal transformation. |
Keywords | religion; social economy; cultural studies |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 389999. Other economics not elsewhere classified |
441099. Sociology not elsewhere classified | |
500499. Religious studies not elsewhere classified | |
470299. Cultural studies not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3v86/religion-and-the-social-economy-elective-affinities
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