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Summer 2020

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 35, Number 2

Categories: Summer 2020 | Religion and Economics

Religious Freedom and Private Enterprise

Art Carden, Samford University and American Institute for Economic Research

Steven Castello, City on a Hill Church

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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise35(2),2020,47–59ReligiousFreedomandPrivateEnterpriseArtCarden*SamfordUniversityStevenCastelloCityonaHillChurchBenjaminA.PridayTexasA&MUniversity______________________________________________________AbstractEconomicandreligiousfreedomoverlapinmarkets,wherepeoplecananddoactontheirdeeplyheldbeliefs.Thispaperconsidersthisoverlapandarguesthatrespectforreligiouslibertymeansrespectforeconomiclibertyandviceversa:marketsareimportantmaterialspaces,buttheyarealsoimportantmoralspacesinwhichpeople’smostdeeplyheldbeliefsmanifestthemselves.Respectforautonomyrequiresrespectforeconomicandreligiousliberty.______________________________________________________JELCodes:B12,B53,N3,P1,P14,Z13Keywords:religiousliberty,freemarket,markets,HayekI.IntroductionHowdoreligiousandeconomicfreedomoverlap?Ina2006keynotespeechonfaithandpoliticsattheCalltoRenewal’s“BuildingaCovenantforaNewAmerica”conference,then-IllinoissenatorBarackObamasaid:Secularistsarewrongwhentheyaskbelieverstoleavetheirreligionatthedoorbeforeenteringthepublicsquare...indeed,themajorityofGreatReformersinAmericanhistory...werenotonlymotivatedbyfaith,butrepeatedlyusedreligiouslanguagetoarguetheircause.Sotosaymenandwomenshouldnotinjecttheir“personalmorality”intopublicpolicydebatesisa*WethankparticipantsatvariousmeetingsoftheAssociationofPrivateEnterpriseEducation,thePublicChoiceSociety,andthePhilosophy,Politics,andEconomicsSocietyforvaluablecommentsandfeedback.AnearlierversionofthispaperwassupportedbyagrantfromtheInstituteforFaith,Work,andEconomics.

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Title	Religious Freedom and Private Enterprise
Authors/Creators:	Art Carden, Samford University and American Institute for Economic Research Steven Castello, City on a Hill Church
Year:	2020
Volume:	35
Number:	2
Pages:	47 - 59
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	religious liberty, free market, markets, Hayek

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Carden, Art; Castello, Steven / 2020. "Religious Freedom and Private Enterprise." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 35(2): 47-59.