ABSTRACT
If the line between religion and politics in our society seems at time to be blurry, the one between religion and the economy could hardly be brighter. Modern economic thinking comes with a set of assumptions and mode of thinking that find little place for religious ideas. Whereas, for example, many religious texts advocate for limits on property rights and for consideration of the social good in business decisions, these are rarely part of our own public discourse which takes property rights for granted and expects businesses to make decisions based on profit and loss projections. In fact, for many, religion seems not only irrelevant to economic thinking but even antithetical. Religion deals with lofty matters of the soul, business with the material grind of everyday life. Business dirties religion; they are conceived as operating in separate, hermetically sealed, spheres. We no more like to see money in our religion than religion in our money.
