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My assignment is not only the conventional one of a respondent: to assess and comment on the six case studies in this volume. In addition to assessing the case studies, I have been asked to evaluate how well the overall evidence provided by the six case studies in this volume bears on the central question of the volume: Is the attempt to combine into a normative social theory the (putative) insights of theology with the (putative) scientific knowledge supplied by economics either or both intellectually defensible and actually fruitful? In short, do these six particular case studies shed light on the larger question of whether mixing economics and religion together to create normative social theory is in general a useful endeavour?
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Elzinga, K.G. (1999). Economics and Religion. In: Dean, J.M., Waterman, A.M.C. (eds) Religion and Economics: Normative Social Theory. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4401-8_10
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