%0 Journal Article
%T Religion and the spontaneous order of the market: Law, freedom, and power over lives
%A Elettra Stimilli
%J European Journal of Social Theory
%@ 1461-7137
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1368431018803705
%X This article focuses on a religious structure that is intrinsic to the contemporary mechanisms that have enabled the global domination of economic power: faith in the market. Following Foucault¡¯s transition from biopolitics to governmentality, this article articulates the mechanism that generates the ability for human beings to give shape and value to their lives. Through a reading of Schmitt and Hayek, as well as an updated reading of Weber¡¯s thesis on the origin of capitalism, this article argues that we must turn our attention to the Christian motifs that shape our contemporary understanding of the ¡®economy¡¯
%K biocapital
%K Christianity
%K economic theology
%K governmentality
%K neoliberalism
%K political theology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431018803705