{"id":2568,"date":"2024-05-14T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:38:00","slug":"the-divine-economy-how-religions-compete-for-wealth-power-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED IN MAY 2024: The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Book events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aalims.org\/aalims-princeton-conference-on-the-political-economy-of-the-muslim-world-3\/\">AALIMS conference<\/a> in Princeton, 11th April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691133003\/the-divine-economy\">Princeton University Press<\/a> on 14th May 2024. It was long listed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=2934\">FT\/Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2024<\/a>, and was a finalist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/news\/prose-2025?srsltid=AfmBOoqqP_EAoWs179oLQNx4F9KffO-kcO1hnZyzdjXOdgucKrmPYeJ_\">2025 PROSE awards<\/a> of the Association of American Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a contribution to PUP&#8217;s Ideas page to mark the release: <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/ideas\/a-sermon-from-a-mountebank-religious-messaging-in-the-age-of-ai\">&#8220;A sermon from a mountebank? Religious messaging in the age of AI<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an extract in <em>Foreign Policy<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/05\/05\/modern-religion-power-christianity-hinduism-buddhism-islam-economics-business\/\">&#8220;The Divine Marketplace is Pretty Crowded&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an extract in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milkenreview.org\/articles\/book-excerpt-the-divine-economy?IssueID=55\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.milkenreview.org\/articles\/book-excerpt-the-divine-economy?IssueID=55\">The Milken Institute Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launch events were held at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/events\/listings\/index.html\/event\/13425\">University of Glasgow<\/a> on 28th May and at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/Events\/2024\/05\/202405291830\/divine\">London School of Economics<\/a> on 29th May. The lecture at the LSE was recorded, and is available on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ElTNDEXrDFQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I discussed the book on 11th June during the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StarlingTrust\/status\/1791208166304129214\">launch event<\/a> for the Starling 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.starlingtrust.com\/content\/compendium\/compendium-download\">Compendium<\/a>, with Harvard Business School&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/faculty\/Pages\/profile.aspx?facId=6451\">Amy Edmondson.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave a talk in a panel at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sssreligion.org\/annual-meeting\/meeting-info\/\">Society for Scientific Study of Religion<\/a>, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 18th October 2024, with the excellent David Hollinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.econ.cam.ac.uk\/faculty-news\/2024\/paul-seabright-divine-economy-score-strand-iii-lecture\">Score Strand III Lecture<\/a> at the University of Cambridge on 17th November 2024, and have given book talks at the University of California at Berkeley, Chapman University and the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I published a piece on 30th August in IAI News entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/iai.tv\/articles\/how-religion-wrote-the-playbook-for-big-tech-auid-2933?_auid=2020\">&#8220;How Religion Wrote the Playbook for Big Tech: Studying Religion from the Outside In<\/a>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reviews, podcasts and interviews are available <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=2652\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement page is <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691133003\/the-divine-economy\">here<\/a>, and you can order it there are well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also order it on Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Origins-Enchantment-How-Religions-Compete\/dp\/069113300X\/ref=sr_1_13?crid=IVW7G62S2OL4&amp;keywords=paul+seabright&amp;qid=1696182692&amp;sprefix=paul+seabright%2Caps%2C151&amp;sr=8-13\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of the French translation are <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=3240\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data files for the Statistical Appendix are available <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=2490\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Divine_Economu_Cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Divine_Economu_Cover-688x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Divine_Economu_Cover-688x1024.png 688w, https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Divine_Economu_Cover-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Divine_Economu_Cover-768x1144.png 768w, https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Divine_Economu_Cover.png 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book events: AALIMS conference in Princeton, 11th April 2025. 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