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Evangelical and Catholic Timespace in Work: An Argument against a Homeless Eschatology
Department of Systematic Theology, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, 0302 Oslo, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0130-2898
2021 (English)In: Religions, E-ISSN 2077-1444, Vol. 12, no 3, p. 199-199Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article engages with how religion and economy relate to each other in faith-based businesses. It also elaborates on a recurrent idea in theological literature that reflections on different visions of time can advance theological analyses of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism. More specifically, this article brings results from an ethnographic study of two faith-based businesses into conversation with the ethicist Luke Bretherton’s presentation of different understandings of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism. Using Theodore Schatzki’s theory of timespace, the article examines how time and space are constituted in two small faith-based businesses that are part of the two networks Business as Mission (evangelical) and Economy of Communion (catholic) and how the different timespaces affect the religious-economic configurations in the two cases and with what moral implications. The overall findings suggest that the timespace in the Catholic business was characterized by struggling caused by a tension between certain ideals on how religion and economy should relate to each other on the one hand and how the practice evolved on the other hand. Furthermore, the timespace in the evangelical business was characterized by confidence, caused by the business having a rather distinct and achievable goal when it came to how they wanted to be different and how religion should relate to economy. There are, however, nuances and important resemblances between the cases that cannot be explained by the businesses’ confessional and theological affiliations. Rather, there seems to be something about the phenomenon of tension-filled and confident faith-based businesses that causes a drive in the practices towards the common good. After mapping the results of the empirical study, I discuss some contributions that I argue this study brings to Bretherton’s presentation of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism.

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2021. Vol. 12, no 3, p. 199-199
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ethnography; Business as Mission; Economy of Communion
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2543DOI: 10.3390/rel12030199OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ths-2543DiVA, id: diva2:1899419
Available from: 2024-09-19 Created: 2024-09-19 Last updated: 2025-09-15Bibliographically approved

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