20/05/2024 11:00 - 13:15

HALL: FATESI - D'ACQUISTO

Proponent: Gabriel I., Stoeckl K.

Chair: Ingeborg G.

Speaker: Bell M., Ingeborg G., Stoeckl K., Uzlaner D.

This panel starts from the observation that connections and collaborations between religions have moved into the focus of social science and theological research for a long time already: interreligious dialogue, religions for peace movement, the ecumenical movement, but also forms of illiberal and conservative religious alliances etc. What has so far remained in the shadow of this renewed interest in religious cooperation and interfaith dialogue is the question of economics: what do religious traditions share - and what divides them - in terms of their imaginaries of a "good" economic order? This panel brings together contributions that set out to renew "old" questions posed by Max Weber on religion and economics. It invites for a discussion on the contemporary significance of comparing the economic agendas of religious actors and religious traditions.


Speakers at the panel will be


Mark Bell: "Catholic Social Teaching in the platform economy": The growth of the platform economy has been accompanied by increasing scrutiny of the conditions faced by those who perform work in this sector. Digital labour platforms have been in the vanguard of using algorithms as instruments for the management of work, in areas such as allocating assignments, evaluating performance, and (ultimately) termination of contracts. In the field of labour law, this has prompted extensive debate on how to ensure effective protection of workers at this intersection of labour and technology. This paper explores the contribution that religion can make to ethical reflection on how to navigate justice for workers in the platform economy. The paper will explore how the ethical principles found in CST can illuminate deliberation on the platform economy and play a role in shaping its future regulation.


Kristina Stoeckl: "Catholic Sociology in interwar-Austria": The paper elaborates the economic ideas developed by Catholic sociologists in Austria in the 1920s and 30s and interrogates the legacy of these ideas in contemporary conservative critiques of liberalism.


Ingeborg Gabriel: Social ethics and the economy in interreligious and intercultural dialogue