Free Trade and Faithful Globalization
Saving the Market

This book analyzes how religious groups talk about the politics surrounding economic life.

Amy Reynolds (Author)

9781107078246, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 November 2014

208 pages, 5 tables
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.45 kg

'Scholars interested in public religion will benefit from this book's detailed portrait of three religious bodies' economic discourse. Around the world, many people view at least some aspects of global market relations critically. How would religious spokespeople generate more discussion about the morality of the global economy? Reynolds's book has given us important starting points for inquiring further.' Paul Lichterman, American Journal of Sociology

Through an analysis of Christian communities in the United States, Canada, and Costa Rica, this book analyzes how religious groups talk about the politics surrounding economic life. Amy Reynolds examines how these Christian organizations speak about trade and the economy as moral and value-laden spaces, deserving ethical reflection and requiring political action. She reveals the ways in which religious communities have asked people to engage in new approaches to thinking about the market and how they have worked to create alternative networks and policies governing economic and social life.

Introduction
1. Producing market discourse
2. Too flawed for reform: the Canadian Christian struggle for an alternative economic order
3. Covenants and treaties: PCUSA's evolving trade policy
4. Dialogue and development: the Costa Rican Catholic response to CAFTA
5. The political and economic discourse of religious communities
6. Encouraging religious communities to promote the common good.

Subject Areas: International business [KJK], International economics [KCL], Political corruption [JPZ], Political control & freedoms [JPV], International relations [JPS], Political structure & processes [JPH], Political science & theory [JPA], Politics & government [JP]