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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Business and religion. Salem, MA : M & M Scrivener, ©2005 (DLC) 90171341 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Capaldi |
ISBN: | 0980209404 9780980209402 1423734068 9781423734062 |
OCLC Number: | 191935453 |
Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 442 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Can Commerce Inspire? -- The Virtues of a Commercial Republic -- Ships Passing in the Night: The Conceptual Disconnects Between American Christianity and Capitalism -- Disconnected at the Roots: How Gaps in the Catholic Social Doctrine Impede Dialog and Action on Economic Justice -- The Market's Benevolent Tendencies -- The Jews and Capitalism: A Love-Hate Relationship -- Doing Secular Theology: Business Ethics in Economic and Environmental Religion Why Is There a Conflict Between Business and Religion? A Historical PerspectiveThe Metaphysical Foundations of the Ethics of Commerce -- The Deuteronomic Double Standard: Human Nature and the Nature of Markets -- What Does America Owe to Florence? -- Property in Roman Religion and Early Christian Fathers -- Perestroika in Christendom: The Scholastics Develop a Commerce-Friendly Moral Code -- The Concern of the Church and the Unconcern of the Free Market -- The Conflict Between Business and Religion: Where Does It Come From? -- Capitalism Beyond the End of History An Explanation for Jewish Business SuccessThe Virtue of Commerce in the Catholic Tradition -- Islam, Commerce, and Business Ethics -- Can Theology Help Us in Applied Ethics? -- The Sources and Spiritual Basis of Catholic Business Ethics -- Calling, Character, Community: Spirituality for Business People -- Mankind Was My Business: An Examination of a Christian Business Ethic and Its Application to Various Ethical Challenges Corporate Corruption: How the Theories of Reinhold Niebuhr and the Ethical Practices of Joseph Badaracco May Help Understand and Limit Corporate CorruptionCorporate Social Responsibility: A Traditional Catholic Perspective -- Natural Law and the Fiduciary Duties of Business Managers -- The Common Good of the Firm as the Fiduciary Duty of the Manager -- Subsidiarity as a Business Model -- The Hindu Executive and His Dharma -- Spirituality and Entrepreneurship -- Business, Religious Spirituality and the East European Experience American Free Enterprise as an Enterprise in Freedom AbroadIslam and Capitalism: A Non- Rodinsonian Approach -- The Role of Hinduism in Global India and Her Business Ethics -- The African Traditional Religion's Business Ethics: A Paradigm for Spirituality in the Global Business Ethical Standard -- Faith-Correlated Responses to Rural Assistance in a Globalizing Brazil -- The Worldly Failures of Liberation Theology -- Globalization: Insights from Catholic Social Teaching -- The Archbishop of Canterbury: On the Facts and Values of Religion and Globalization -- Contributors |
Series Title: | Conflicts and trends in business ethics. |
Responsibility: | edited by Nicholas Capaldi. |
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"Business and religion have existed side-by-side for millennia. As these essays demonstrate, the co-existence has not always been harmonious. Yet this book also suggests that the two, understood properly, can be mutually beneficial. It is a welcome contribution to a growing body of scholarship that seeks to appreciate more fully the connection between our relationship with God and our work in the market." Fr. Robert A. Sirico, President, The acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty" Read more...

