02325nam a2200409I 4500 ovld002108184 UtOrBLW 20251029120810.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 170624s2017 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781787145351 (e-book) 9781787149663 (ePUB) UtOrBLW HB72 .F83 2017 KCG bicssc bicssc REL016000 bisacsh bisacsh 330:21/29 Fudulu, Paul, author. 23561 The economic decoding of religious dogmas : ranking world religions in terms of economic consistency / by Paul Fudulu. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (150 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. This book proves that each religious dogma, in any of their components, contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega-objectives, implicitly, a specific preference for absolute wealth or, in a more common parlance, for the objective of economic performance. In turn, that specific preference, under ceteris paribus condition, determines the share of believer's general resources which is channeled to economic performance. An in-depth or correct understanding of a religious dogma, which makes sense for terrestrial social realities, is impossible without a specific model of decoding. Additionally, such a model is simply impossible within an orthodox Western, that is, non-transcultural perspective. There is no accident that all Western efforts to decode religions, economic or non-economic, have failed. Understanding religion based on its face story is very precarious, if not even dangerous. Print version record Religion Economic aspects. 61359 Religion, Institutions & Organizations. bisacsh 61360 Economic growth. bicssc 58347 9781787145368 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787145351 52073 52073