Religious Futures Network
The Religious Futures Network (RFN) is an interdisciplinary and multi-faith network seeking to engage in the growing dialogue between religion and economics as to the future direction and structure of capitalism in the 21st century.
The network is part of a larger Religion and Political Economy project resourced by the Foundation.
The name Religious Futures has three dimensions:
- Our global future will be shaped by the values, insights and practices of religious traditions alongside secularisation processes
- Economics as a discipline will be partly shaped by the insights and research of religiously informed economists, theologians, businesses, not for profits and community level practitioners
- Religiously informed economists and analysts will increasingly contribute to specific questions concerning the restructuring of the 'futures' aspect of the Market, including the role of risk, regulation, derivatives and hedge funds
The RFN is an open space for debate and contribution from a wide range of views and perspectives. It contains news of events, publications links, conferences and papers contributed by members of the network and others. Publication of papers are at discretion of our webpage editors - Dr John Reader - drjohnreader@hotmail.co.uk and Dr John Atherton - john.atherton@talktalk.net. We hope you find the content of this network engaging and thought provoking and we look forward to your contribution. Please click here for current contributors to the network.
Latest news and articles below:
- Overview of New Capitalism Project - Chris Baker
- Introduction to New Capitalism Colloquium - John Atherton
- The New Capitalism - Robert Peston
- Response to Robert Peston - Phillip Jones
- Authoritarian Capitalism - John Reader
- Journeyings to Greater Wellbeing - John Atherton
- Seven new middle axioms for 21st century - John Atherton
- '"No one saw this coming" - Macro-economics for the future' -John Reader
- Review of Caritas in Veritate by Patrick Riordan
- 'It's not simply about the banks' - Nicholas Baldwin
- 'Can behavioural economics put Humpty Dumpty together again?' - review of Animal Spirits - John Reader
- Link to Diocese of Worcester's Just So paper on the future of Public Theology - John Reader and Phillip Jones
- The Common - book review of Commonwealth by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri by John Reader
- The Potentially Moral Nature of Economic Actions (Including Lending at Interest) - Ian Steedman