Amelie Rüppel: Religiöse Narrative der Finanzkrisendeutung, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Amelie Rüppel addresses the question of which religious narratives have shaped church interpretations of the financial crises of 1929 and 2008 and how these have changed across historical periods, text genres, and institutions. Based on an extensive empirical corpus of church sermons and position papers from the EKD (Protestant Church in Germany), EKHN (Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau), and EKKW (Protestant Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck), and homiletic journals digital text-analytical methods - particularly Structural Topic Modeling - are used to identify key clusters of meaning, or "topics," structuring these discourses. Through qualitative analyses, the author uncovers the underlying narratives and makes them accessible for theological-ethical reflection. Three guiding narratives prove central: the sin narrative, interpreting the homo oeconomicus and his freedom-self-interest tension as an expression of sin; the trust narrative, exploring the relation between trust in God and trust in money as the foundation of institutional trust; and the creation narrative, deriving Protestant concepts of sustainability from human responsibility for creation. Linking these findings to approaches in narrative economics (Robert Shiller) and Protestant economic ethics (Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch), Amelie Rüppel opens new perspectives on the interrelation of religion, morality, and economy.