Folks:
Michael mcKinley's book Economic Globalization as Religious War (Routledge a few years back) is well worth a read on these themes. Adds an interesting twist to neo-liberalism by interpreting it in terms of theological modes of reasoning.
But all this is really interesting if one juxtaposes it with God is Back by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, yes those Economist journalists, which reads religion as marketing strategy, and international politics as advertising competition between Islam and Christianity!
Drawing the dots between these completely different takes on contemporary economics should keep students busy all semester!!
Simon Dalby
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On 2011-09-22, at 6:12 PM, Simon Springer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Disturbing, but not surprising given the discourses neoliberalism maintains. In a recent paper in Political Geography (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629811000084) I argue that the "theology of neoliberalism" operates through a certain evangelism and produces a salvationary discourse... so after decades of proselytizing this sort of nexus between economics and religion only makes (perverse) "sense".
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