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- Money as God?
- Money as God?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Money and markets: economic, legal, and theological foundations
- II Monetary exchange: historical and social roots
- 6 Money and image: the presence of the state on the routes of economy
- 7 The social world of Ecclesiastes
- 8 The development of monetary systems in Palestine during the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Eras
- 9 Fate’s gift economy: the Chinese case of coping with the asymmetry between man and fate
- 10 “Mothers and children”: discourses on paper money during the Song period
- 11 “Buying Heaven”: the prospects of commercialized salvation in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries*
- III Monetary exchange: ethical limits and challenges
- IV Money, wealth, and desire
- Index
9 - Fate’s gift economy: the Chinese case of coping with the asymmetry between man and fate
from II - Monetary exchange: historical and social roots
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Money as God?
- Money as God?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Money and markets: economic, legal, and theological foundations
- II Monetary exchange: historical and social roots
- 6 Money and image: the presence of the state on the routes of economy
- 7 The social world of Ecclesiastes
- 8 The development of monetary systems in Palestine during the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Eras
- 9 Fate’s gift economy: the Chinese case of coping with the asymmetry between man and fate
- 10 “Mothers and children”: discourses on paper money during the Song period
- 11 “Buying Heaven”: the prospects of commercialized salvation in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries*
- III Monetary exchange: ethical limits and challenges
- IV Money, wealth, and desire
- Index
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- Money as God?The Monetization of the Market and its Impact on Religion, Politics, Law, and Ethics, pp. 184 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014