Papers by Maria Ledstam
HYBRID – mellan akademi, kyrka & samhälle, Jan 24, 2023
HYBRID – mellan akademi, kyrka & samhälle, Jan 24, 2023
Här får du som vill fördjupa dig i att förkunna Gamla testamentet samlade tips på resurser som nä... more Här får du som vill fördjupa dig i att förkunna Gamla testamentet samlade tips på resurser som nämns i de olika artiklarna ovan, med tillägg från redaktionen.
Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology
Religions, 2021
This article engages with how religion and economy relate to each other in faith-based businesses... more This article engages with how religion and economy relate to each other in faith-based businesses. It also elaborates on a recurrent idea in theological literature that reflections on different visions of time can advance theological analyses of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism. More specifically, this article brings results from an ethnographic study of two faith-based businesses into conversation with the ethicist Luke Bretherton’s presentation of different understandings of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism. Using Theodore Schatzki’s theory of timespace, the article examines how time and space are constituted in two small faith-based businesses that are part of the two networks Business as Mission (evangelical) and Economy of Communion (catholic) and how the different timespaces affect the religious-economic configurations in the two cases and with what moral implications. The overall findings suggest that the timespace in the Catholic busin...
Religions, 2020
Kathryn Tanner’s book Christianity and the new Spirit of Capitalism generated an interesting deba... more Kathryn Tanner’s book Christianity and the new Spirit of Capitalism generated an interesting debate about the relationship between Christianity and capitalism, as exemplified by the four review essays—by David Cloutier, Nicole M. Flores, Philip Goodchild, and John E. Thiel, respectively—published in Modern Theology in 2019. While the responses contain many interesting critical points, this article focuses on two particular trajectories in the debate that indirectly demand an empirical engagement with Tanner’s work. One strand of criticism charges that Tanner offers too generic examples of the economic reality that she examines, while her description of Christianity is too specific without being contextualized. The second strand argues that Tanner makes a dichotomy between a religious project and an economic project, which leads to the construction of a “pure” Christian conduct. This article continues this debate by fleshing out the issues of purity and impurity through an empirical ...
Non-Academic Articles by Maria Ledstam
HYBRID, 2023
Här får du som vill fördjupa dig i att förkunna Gamla testamentet samlade tips på resurser som nä... more Här får du som vill fördjupa dig i att förkunna Gamla testamentet samlade tips på resurser som nämns i de olika artiklarna ovan, med tillägg från redaktionen.
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Papers by Maria Ledstam
Non-Academic Articles by Maria Ledstam