TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fudulu,Paul
TI  - The economic decoding of religious dogmas: ranking world religions in terms of economic consistency 
SN  - 9781787145351 (e-book)
AV  - HB72 .F83 2017
U1  - 174 23
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Religion
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Religion, Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Economic growth
KW  - bicssc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This book proves that each religious dogma, in any of their components, contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega-objectives, implicitly, a specific preference for absolute wealth or, in a more common parlance, for the objective of economic performance.  In turn, that specific preference, under ceteris paribus condition, determines the share of believer's general resources which is channeled to economic performance. An in-depth or correct understanding of a religious dogma, which makes sense for terrestrial social realities, is impossible without a specific model of decoding.  Additionally, such a model is simply impossible within an orthodox Western, that is, non-transcultural perspective.  There is no accident that all Western efforts to decode religions, economic or non-economic, have failed. Understanding religion based on its face story is very precarious, if not even dangerous
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787145351
ER  -