[almost] un-believable.
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cloke [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: The Affective Economics of God
Another sterling contribution by the Economist (and God?) to the AAG Affective Economics session...
Deus ex machina - Faith in the free market
Economist Online
Sep 20th 2011, 20:23 by R.A. | WASHINGTON
“About one in five Americans combine a view of God as actively engaged in daily workings of the world with an economic conservative view that opposes government regulation and champions the free market as a matter of faith.
"They say the invisible hand of the free market is really God at work," says sociologist Paul Froese, co-author of the Baylor Religion Survey, released today by Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
"They think the economy works because God wants it to work. It's a new religious economic idealism," with politicians "invoking God while chanting 'less government,'" he says.
"When Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann say 'God blesses us, God watches us, God helps us,' religious conservatives get the shorthand. They see 'government' as a profane object — a word that is used to signal working against God's plan for the United States. To argue against this is to argue with their religion."”
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer/Research Associate
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
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