Many of the essays in this volume are published here for the first time.

In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America.

This book was originally published as a Special Issue of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the United States.

... Economics Necessary ? " , The Scientific Monthly , 68 ( 4 ) : 235-40 , reprinted in Beyond Economics : Essays on Society , Religion , and Ethics , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Boulding , K. ( 1956a ) . " General Systems ...

This book is highly recommended for readers interested in the critical study of religion, its role in society, and those who are fans of early 20th-century muckraking literature.

Book Reviews and Notes Science and social order Beyond Economics : Essays on Society , Religion , and Ethics . By Kenneth E. Boulding . Ann Ar- bor , Mich . , University of Michigan Press , 1968 . 302 pp . $ 9.50 . The subject of ...

... Religion, Community and Modernity. New York: Routledge, 1997. Boulding, kenneth. Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. Bowman, Robert M. The Word-Faith Controversy ...

... Faith and Economics in 'Development': a Bridge Across the Chasm?' Development in Practice 10, no. 1 (2000): 9-18. D. Goulet, 'Development Ethics and Ecological Wisdom' in Ethics of Environment and Development, 40-42; Goulet, Development ...