03002nam a2200505Ki 4500 ocn927405519 OCoLC 20200709060422.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 151103s2015 miu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9781467443913 electronic bk. 1467443913 electronic bk. 9780802872807 0802872808 (OCoLC)927405519 1089244 (N$T) HB72 .G873 2015eb BUS 069000 bisacsh BUS 055000 bisacsh 330.9 23 N$TA Gustafson, Scott W. At the altar of Wall Street : the rituals, myths, theologies, sacraments, and mission of the religion known as the modern global economy / Scott W. Gustafson. Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015. 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-215) and index. Economic rituals -- Economic myths, metaphors, and rhetoric -- The economy's theologians, prophets, reformers, terrorists, and primal religion? -- Beyond our current religious configurations. In this thought-provoking book Scott Gustafson argues that economics performs the same function in contemporary American culture that religions did in past cultures. He describes and analyzes the rituals, pilgrimage sites, myths, prophets, reformers, sacraments, and mission of economics to show how the economy operates as our de facto "god." Understanding how economics functions as a religion is the first step in addressing many of today's political and social problems, Gustafson says. Our inability to compromise on economic matters is much more intelligible when competing principles are understood as religious laws that cannot be violated. At the Altar of Wall Street encompasses a broad sweep of history, philosophy, culture studies, economic ideas -- and religion, of course -- and offers insightful discussion of such topics as debt, economic terrorism, globalization, and money as the economy's sacrament. Print version record. Economics Religious aspects. Economics Religious aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00902177 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Gustafson, Scott W. At the altar of Wall Street 9780802872807 (DLC) 2015013108 (OCoLC)908192631 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1089244 EBSCOhost EBSC 1089244 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 56583 56583