RELIGIÓN Y DEMOCRACIA DE MERCADO

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explain the relationship among religion, market and democracy. These complex forces have been built up into a market of “democracy”. In general, this concept identifies both the function and structure of market in general to the particular political market of democracy. To show this identification, we start from the process of transition from feudal society to bourgeois society, caused by the exhaustion of feudal production methods. The increasing costs of serfdom forced society to think with a different vision: the invisible hand or self-regulating principle. This brought about the independence of civil society in the State through the very mechanism of the market, so absorbing religious, political and cultural values to transform them into other values of the same name but with different significance, as a consequence of the market mechanism. The market gives individuals a new identity and they act by obeying principles of reason, freedom and equality, the true economic principles of democracy.