Salvation Goods and Religious Markets

The Editor: Jörg Stolz is professor of sociology of religion at the University of Lausanne and director of the Observatory of Religions in Switzerland (ORS).

• Contents: Jörg Stolz: Introduction: A New Look at the Question of Salvation Goods and Religious Markets – Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz: Salvation Goods and Culture Goods: An Interpretation of Max Weber – Franz Schultheis: Salvation Goods and Domination: Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology of the Religious Field – Jörg Stolz: Salvation Goods and Religious Markets: Integrating Rational Choice and Weberian Perspectives – Steve Bruce: The Social Limits on Religious Markets – Pierre-Yves Brandt: Integration or Individuation: Are the Salvation Goods Promised by First-Century Christian Preaching Still Attractive? – Silvia Mancini: Salvation Goods and the Canonization Logic: On Two Popular Cults of Southern Italy – Enzo Pace: Salvation Goods, the Gift Economy and Charismatic Concern – Jean-Pierre Bastian: The New Religious Economy of Latin America – Terry Rey: Worthiness as Spiritual Capital: Theorizing Little Haiti’s Religious Market – Véronique Altglas: Indian Gurus and the Quest for Self-perfection Among the Educated Middle-Classes – Maya Burger: What is the Price of Salvation? The Exchange of Salvation Goods between India and the West – Jean-François Mayer: Salvation Goods and the Religious Market in the Cultic Milieu.

«Un estudio, sin duda, atrayente, interesante, especialmente para quienes intentan penetrar y comprender, desde el punto de vista sociológico, la variedad de fenómenos y movimientos religiosos y para-religiosos que pululan por el mercado actual.» (Jesús-Angel Barreda, Bibliographia Missionaria)