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).

«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)

• 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.