Is the Market Moral? Protestant Assessments of Market Society

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• 作者：Brian Steensland (1)
  Zachary Schrank (2)
  
• 关键词：Protestantism ; The free market ; Economic attitudes ; Economic discourse ; Voluntarism ; Consumerism ; Corporate responsibility ; Market transitions
• 刊名：Review of Religious Research
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：December 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：53
• 期：3
• 页码：257-277
• 全文大小：225KB
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• 作者单位：Brian Steensland (1)
  Zachary Schrank (2)
  
  1. Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall 744, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
  2. Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, Social Sciences Building, Rm 400, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
  

文摘

Is the market moral? Do different Protestant traditions have competing views of “market society- Despite the increasing diffusion of market logics in American society, scholars of religion have little empirical data on these questions. Employing discourse analysis of market-related topics in two prominent Christian periodicals over a twenty-year period, this paper compares evangelical and mainline Protestant evaluations of markets. We find that neither group views markets as redeeming, self-regulating, or value neutral, and both groups argue that markets require constraints. Evangelicals prioritize moral constraints on markets, while mainline Protestants prioritize governmental and democratic constraints. The degree of difference between the groups varies considerably by topic, however, depending on the degree of potential state intervention. We close by discussing our findings in light of recent debates over the relationship between religious conservatism and economic conservatism. We find that economic conservatism among evangelicals is driven at least as much by a commitment to collective voluntarism as by atomized individualism or free market ideology.