Credo credit crisis : speculations on faith and money /

Credo credit crisis : speculations on faith and money /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017] ©2017
Description:	ix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
Subject:	Economics -- Religious aspects. Economics -- Religious aspects. Financial crises. Money -- Moral and ethical aspects. Money -- Religious aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11341503

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Other authors / contributors:	Milesi, Laurent, editor. Müller, Christopher John, editor. Tynan, Aidan, editor.
ISBN:	9781783483808 1783483806 9781783483815 1783483814
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age. But what happens when individual belief and the systems into which it is bound enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique of capitalism proceed today? With the effects of the 2008 economic crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings together some of the most important contemporary voices in philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory together to assert the need to interrogate and broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism.

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Summary:	Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.<br> <br> <br> <br> But what happens when individual belief (credo, 'I' believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, 'it' believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique of capitalism proceed today?<br> <br> <br> <br> With the effects of the 2008 economic crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings together some of the most important contemporary voices in philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory together in one volume to assert the need to interrogate and broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism.<br> <br>
Physical Description:	ix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781783483808 1783483806 9781783483815 1783483814