Democracy, Religion, and Commerce: Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion (Law and Religion)

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between religion, state, and market.

It challenges the common assumption that religious freedom operates like market freedom, and instead argues that the market has become a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict.

The authors invite scholars from various disciplines to consider the extent to which markets are implicated in religion and public life, and provide valuable insights into the ethical and regulatory force of the metaphor "free market religion." This book is a must-read for researchers and academics working in law and religion, ethics, and economics.