Salvation goods and religious markets
Subtitle: theory and applications
By: Jörg Stolz, ed.
Contributors: Stolz, Jörg.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9783039112111
Subjects: Religious pluralism; Religion -- Economic aspects; Religion and sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and an index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A new look at the question of salvation goods and religious markets / Jörg Stolz; title: Theory; title: Salvation goods and culture goods : an interpretation of Max Weber / Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz; title: Salvation goods and domination : Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of the religious field / Franz Schultheis; title: Salvation goods and religious markets : integrating rational choice and weberian perspectives / Jörg Stolz; title: The social limits on religious markets / Steve Bruce; title: Applications; title: Integration or individuation : are the salvation goods promised by first-century Christian preaching still attractive? / Pierre-Yves Brandt; title: Salvation goods and the canonization logic : on two popular cults of southern Italy / Silvia Mancini; title: Salvation goods, the gift economy and charismatic concern / Enzo Pace; title: The new religious economy of Latin America / Jean-Pierre Bastian; title: Worthiness as spiritual capital : theorizing little Haiti's religious market / Terry Rey; title: Indian gurus and the quest for self-perfection among the educated middle-classes / Véronique Altglas; title: What is the price of salvation?:  the exchange of salvation goods between India and the West / Maya Burger; title: Salvation goods and religious market in the cultic milieu / Jean-François Mayer.