Economics of Faith: Reforming Poverty in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780197537732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

Esther Chung-Kim

Recenzje

There are three particularly distinctive achievements in this illuminating book. First: while necessarily selective, it also has refreshingly panoramic dimensions. Second: it retrieves authentically the Reformation era's natural integration of religious faith, theology, service and witness, community solidarity, ethical use of material resources, social welfare, and the public good. Third: the architecture of the book is pleasing; it is not just static, since the major attention devoted to paradigms of migrant and exilic religious groups with their fragility and vulnerability helps animate the investigation and gives it a modern resonance.

O autorze

Esther Chung-Kim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California and the Associate Director of The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.