Rethinking Materialism: Perspectives on the Spiritual Dimension of Economic Behavior

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This collection of essays by ten of the nation's prominent social scientists and theologians offers serious commentary on our culture's obsession with material goods and examines the uneasy relation of materialism to religion. The contributors assess the ways in which materialism has been understood by recent analyses of American character, how the economy shapes our understandings of ourselves, the ways in which religious tho...