Free Trade and Faithful Globalization: Saving the Market (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)

"Through an analysis of Christian communities in the United States, Canada, and Costa Rica, this book analyzes how religious groups talk about the politics surrounding economic life. Amy Reynolds examines how these Christian organizations speak about trade and the economy as moral and value-laden spaces, deserving ethical reflection and requiring political action. She reveals the ways in which religious communities have asked people to engage in new approaches to thinking about the market and how they have worked to create alternative networks and policies governing economic and social life"-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Series page 5 Title page 7 Copyright page 8 Dedication 9 Contents 11 Tables 12 Preface and Acknowledgments 13 Abbreviations 17 Introduction 19 1 Producing Market Discourse 27 2 Too Flawed for Reform: The Canadian Christian Struggle for an Alternative Economic Order 50 3 Covenants and Treaties: PCUSA’s Evolving Trade Policy 81 4 Dialogue and Development: The Costa Rican Catholic Response to CAFTA-DR 112 5 The Political and Economic Discourse of Religious Communities 138 6 Encouraging Religious Communities to Promote the Common Good 161 Primary Sources 173 References 185 Index 197