A Market in Prophecy: Secularism, Law, and the Economy of American Religious Publishing

Ventimiglia, Andrew

doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfw084

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“…Considering secrecy in religions (Teeuwen 2006) in parallel with secrecy in business models (Elyachar 2012), such as intellectual property and trade secrets (Ventimiglia 2017), can elucidate how secrets are not actually things that are hidden from view in an absolute way. Rather, they are important methods of knowing and control that calibrate the relationship between the individual and the collective.…”

Section: Concrete Institutions Require Managementmentioning

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Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form

McLaughlin

Rots

Thomas

et al. 2020

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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A growing body of research describes connections between religion and economic activity through the language of commodification and marketization. Although this scholarship rightly challenges the assumption that religion is or should be divorced from worldly concerns, it still relies on distinctions between religion and the economy as isolable, reified entities. Rejecting this binary approach as untenable, we argue that studying the corporate form enriches the academic study of religion by providing concrete examples of how people create institutions and how organizations turn human bodies into resources while also fostering individuals’ devotion to collective agendas. Attention to the corporate form enables us to keep money and power in view as we trace historical formations and current manifestations of religious organizations. We investigate Japanese genealogies of the corporate form to elucidate some generalizable principles for how nonprofit religions and for-profit companies alike generate missions, families, individuals, and publics.

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Section: Concrete Institutions Require Managementmentioning

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Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form

McLaughlin

Rots

Thomas

et al. 2020

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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“…Religion, both that of majorities and that of minorities, can be seen to have been remodeled in the process. Twenty-first-century movements to adopt and expand Islamic criminal law in Nigeria and Pakistan, for example, have generated new inquiries into the political motivations for the contemporary codification of religious norms (Eltantawi 2017, Hefner 2011, Kendhammer 2016, Lau 2007, Quraishi-Landes 1997, Vaughn 2016, reviving older, more doctrinal inquiries into Islamic legal procedure and judicial discretion (Bassiouni 1982, Haleem et al 2003. Nigeria and Pakistan have also been sites of renewed attention to Islamic fiqh, or jurisprudence, on zina (unlawful sex) and zina bil-jabr (rape), including both ta'zir (discretionary) and hadd (obligatory) corporal punishment, in light of international human rights discourse on gender parity and bodily integrity (Mir-Hosseini 2011, Peters 2005).…”

Section: The Legal Accommodation Of Religion In the Modern Statementioning

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Law and Religion: Reimagining the Entanglement of Two Universals

Oraby

Sullivan

2020

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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In the last few decades, the study of law and religion has undergone considerable reconstruction. Less and less constrained by modern statist construals of rights talk or tied to confessional contexts, the comparative study of the intersection of law and religion by anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and religious studies scholars is undergoing a real renaissance. Exciting new work explores the entanglement of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and material objects across the entire space and time of human history. This article models an engagement between the academic study of religion and sociolegal scholarship by introducing scholars in both fields to contemporary debates in the study of law and religion. These debates examine how and when state law persists as a meaningful arena of contestation; the role of indigenous elites and arrangements of legal pluralism in colonial contexts; and new approaches to economy, race, and sovereignty and citizenship. By mobilizing an understanding of law that does not take for granted the state's alleged monopoly on generating and regulating legal normativity, the article argues that holding law and religion in abeyance as normative traditions invites a far more expansive imaging of these universals in their singularity, in their copresence, and as overlapping domains.

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A Market in Prophecy: Secularism, Law, and the Economy of American Religious Publishing

Cited by 2 publications

References 22 publications

Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form

Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form

Law and Religion: Reimagining the Entanglement of Two Universals

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