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- Title
THE ECONOMY AND RELIGION: ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE ECONOMIC ORIENTATIONS OF RELIGIOUS VS. NON-RELIGIOUS SLOVENIANS.
- Authors
Smrke, Marjan; Hafner Fink, Mitja
- Abstract
This article firstly proposes a classification of the current economic and religious debate, and then discusses the relationship between religion and neoliberalism as the pre-eminent contemporary political and economic paradigm. An investigation follows of the economic orientations of Slovenians with regard to their expressed faith or non-belief as evident in the findings of the World Values Survey. Compared to the nation's non-religious and atheist population, religious Slovenians tend to reject neoliberal values and are more favourably predisposed to socialist ones. Such an orientation has, in general, been more strongly expressed since the onset of the economic crisis in 2008. A regression analysis reveals that this is less a consequence of religious belief, but of the specific socioeconomic characteristics of religious Slovenians.
- Subjects
ECONOMICS &; religion; ECONOMICS; RELIGION
- Publication
Teorija in Praksa, 2015, Vol 52, Issue 3, p565
- ISSN
0040-3598
- Publication type
Abstract