Semester 2 unit: Economy and Race

This unit explores the idea that all economic concepts are secularised theological concepts by engaging in an economic-theological archaeology of the idea of economy, paying attention to the theological origins and modifications of economic concepts such as debt, interest, labour, property, possession, and credit. This illuminates the role of economic-theological concepts in forms of racialisation and colonisation. We therefore pay particular attention to the recent literature in political theology and religion on the production of the racial imagination and the emergence of modern global market economies.

Trinity College Theological School

Trinity College Theological School is a college of the University of Divinity from the Anglican tradition, based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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