In the Shadows of Vanity: Religion and the Debate Over Hierarchy

J. Daniel Hammond

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, vol. 67, issue 3, 429-443

Abstract: Abstract. Sandra Peart and David Levy emphasize the role of economists in their excellent history of the debate between philosophers and scientists and economists and evangelicals over race and hierarchy in 19th‐century Britain. Evangelical Christians have a role as allies with economists, and also Jews, but as a racial rather than a religious group. Religion, which has much to say about what it means to be human, remains in the shadows of Peart and Levy's account. The purpose of this paper is to make a start at casting light on the role of religion in the debate over race and hierarchy in 19th‐century England.

Date: 2008
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