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economic issues and religion  

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  • Most religious traditions have been profoundly ambivalent about economic issues. On the one hand, many religious teachings advocate a division of the spiritual and the material and the religious necessity of becoming removed from worldly life. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Economic Issues and Religion]

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