Prosperity Unbound
Title | Prosperity Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Elena Panaritis |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2007-06-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0230596223 |
This book is about property, informality and institutions relevant to both the developed and the developing world. The author introduces a new analytical tool, Reality Check Analysis, based on theory and practice, and offers a solution to the long-standing problem of informality and to the systematic frustration with the issue.
Economics of Religion
Title | Economics of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel Obadia |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2011-10-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1780522290 |
Explores the fresh paradigms of 'religious economics' and 'economies of religion' under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. This title examines and appraises some of the theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences.
Unbound
Title | Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Boushey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674919319 |
Many fear that efforts to address inequality will undermine the economy as a whole. But the opposite is true: rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to market competition. Heather Boushey breaks down the problem and argues that we can preserve our nation's economic traditions while promoting shared economic growth.
Generation Unbound
Title | Generation Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel V. Sawhill |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2014-09-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0815725590 |
Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change "drifters" into "planners." In a well-written and accessible survey of the impact of family structure on child well-being, Sawhill contrasts "planners," who are delaying parenthood until after they marry, with "drifters," who are having unplanned children early and outside of marriage. These two distinct patterns are contributing to an emerging class divide and threatening social mobility in the United States. Sawhill draws on insights from the new field of behavioral economics, showing that it is possible, by changing the default, to move from a culture that accepts a high number of unplanned pregnancies to a culture in which adults only have children when they are ready to be a parent.
Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements
Title | Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2020-04-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004425799 |
In Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins Rocha, Hutchinson and Openshaw argue that Australia has made and still makes important contributions to the ways in which Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianities have developed worldwide.
Landscapes of Christianity
Title | Landscapes of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | James S. Bielo |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2022-09-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1350062901 |
How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian territories of belonging and theologies of territory? What social-economic-political conditions surround exchanges between religion and nature? This book explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled forms of agency between nature and culture that are at work as Christians produce, consume, experience, imagine, inhabit, manage, and struggle over formations of land. Focusing on Christian engagements with land forms in the early 21st century, this book advances the spatial turn in the study of religion, contributes to the anthropology of religion and the study of global Christianities, as well as our understanding of the relationship between Christianity, space and place.
Religion and the Morality of the Market
Title | Religion and the Morality of the Market PDF eBook |
Author | Daromir Rudnyckyj |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2017-03-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1316949397 |
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice, holding that market principles should be applied to human action at large. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the ascendance of market reason has been countered by calls for reforms of financial markets and for the consideration of moral values in economic practice. This book intervenes in these debates by showing how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions. It reveals how religious movements and organizations have reacted to the increasing prominence of market reason in unpredictable, and sometimes counterintuitive, ways. Using a range of examples from different countries and religious traditions, the book illustrates the myriad ways in which religious and market moralities are closely imbricated in diverse global contexts.