Description:
This volume looks at the intersection between religion and cooperative economics through the lens of economic justice. It covers world religious traditions and gives particular focus to cooperative organization, the social and economic problems of capitalism, and the earliest Christian tradition of the Jesus movement. It also examines religious and theological discourse in contemporary defenses of neoliberal capitalism and contemporary advocates of cooperatives. The book serves to unfold both how and why cooperative economics can and should supplant traditional employer-employee relationships (a pillar of modern capitalism) and revive interest in cooperation, worker solidarity, and significant social and political reforms.
Review Quotes:
"The work done in the book is clearly relevant for our current context, where most will acknowledge that something is wrong with our current systems, and that they are broken or in crisis. ... The book helps us develop our understanding of how economic systems and religions interact with each other, of the parts they play in contributing to the current socioeconomic systems the world faces, and of how communities might imagine and create an alternative through cooperative economics." (Stephanie Ann Y. Puen, JETR, Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, Vol. 6, August 18, 2026)