In this conversation, Chad Seales and Timothy Rainey address what role corporations should assume in achieving the public good. While…
Corporate missions: Commerce, freedom, and the public good
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Extracting corporate religion
In this conversation, Judith Ellen Brunton and Chip Callahan discuss "occupational religion" as it relates to their research on the…
The corporate nature of “alternative” practices
Ioannis Gaitanidis and Aike P. Rots, scholars of contemporary Asian religion, discuss commercial spirituality and corporate myth-making with examples from…
Investigating the corporate form in practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the public good
[In] this essay we briefly elaborate upon the topics we covered in our [JAAR] article to outline promising areas for…
The longue durée of apocalypse
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne discuss apocalypse as both beginning and ending in the context of the rise of settler…
Religious charity and the spirit of homo economicus
In this brief essay I connect Gates’s philosophy of giving—along with many other contemporary neoliberal philanthropists—to Protestant traditions and the…
Gospels of giving
Contributors to this forum consider why, when, and where certain understandings of charity and philanthropy have proven persuasive and powerful.
On impasse and hypocrisy
Bouteldja’s book is a takedown of white supremacy in its cultural, economic, and political forms. Yet the white supremacy that…
Spiral glimpses
This anniversary forum invites us to think together about epochal entrance, temporal markings, defining frames, and what the forum’s curators…
The soft side
“Is this all there is?” can have practical meaning, e.g., “I asked for two dozen eggs, and you have only…