Ryan Calder
Biographic Data
| ID | 250679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Calder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Calder |
| SIGNATURE | CALDER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4557-5540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Halalization: Religious Product Certification in Secular Markets
In Islam, the extension of religious regulation and certification to new product types and economic sectors-'halalization'-has become widespread. There are now Islamic mortgages, halal ports, halal refrigerators, halal blockchain, and shariah-compliant cryptocurrencies. Yet classical secularization theory says religious authority cannot regulate modern economic activity. So what explains halalization? I point to an elective affinity between fiqh …
How religio-economic projects succeed and fail: The field dynamics of Islamic finance in the Arab Gulf states and Pakistan, 1975-2018
Why did Islamic finance become durably institutionalized between the 1970s and early 2000s in the Arab Gulf states, where no mass movement demanded it, but not in Pakistan, where activists had demanded it for decades? I argue that institutionalization required a stable coalition among religious authorities, market actors and the state that shared understandings of religio-economic virtue. Those understandings also had to be compatible with the ne…
God's Technicians: Religious Jurists and the Usury Ban in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
At the heart of the $2 trillion Islamic-finance industry is a ban on interest. But why is there only anIslamicban on interest today? After all, for over a millennium, interest was also gravely sinful in Judaism and Christianity. While scholars have addressed the evolution of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic economic morality in isolation, very few since Weber have tackled the interest question directly and comparatively.I argue that the fate of the…
Architecture of Markets
Markets are socially constructed arenas where repeated exchanges occur between buyers and sellers under a set of formal and informal rules governing relations among competitors, suppliers, and customers. These arenas operate according to local understandings and rules that guide interaction, facilitate trade, define what products are produced, indeed constitute the products themselves, and provide stability for buyers, sellers, and producers. Mar…
Political sociology
Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution and machinations of power at all levels: individual, organizational, communal, national, and international. Defined thus, political science becomes a subfield of sociology. Talcott Parsons (1951), for example, treats the political as one of the four principal domains of sociological analysis. In practice, however, political sociology has developed as a …
Political Sociology
Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution and machination of power at all levels: individual, organizational, communal, national, and international. Defined thus, political science becomes a subfield of sociology. Parsons (1951), for example, treated the political as one of the four principal domains of sociological analysis. In practice, however, political sociology has developed as a sociolog…
The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy
God's Technicians: Religious Jurists and the Usury Ban in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
At the heart of the $2 trillion Islamic-finance industry is a ban on interest. But why is there only anIslamicban on interest today? After all, for over a millennium, interest was also gravely sinful in Judaism and Christianity. While scholars have addressed the evolution of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic economic morality in isolation, very few since Weber have tackled the interest question directly and comparatively.I argue that the fate of the…
Halalization: Religious Product Certification in Secular Markets
In Islam, the extension of religious regulation and certification to new product types and economic sectors-'halalization'-has become widespread. There are now Islamic mortgages, halal ports, halal refrigerators, halal blockchain, and shariah-compliant cryptocurrencies. Yet classical secularization theory says religious authority cannot regulate modern economic activity. So what explains halalization? I point to an elective affinity between fiqh …
How religio-economic projects succeed and fail: The field dynamics of Islamic finance in the Arab Gulf states and Pakistan, 1975-2018
Why did Islamic finance become durably institutionalized between the 1970s and early 2000s in the Arab Gulf states, where no mass movement demanded it, but not in Pakistan, where activists had demanded it for decades? I argue that institutionalization required a stable coalition among religious authorities, market actors and the state that shared understandings of religio-economic virtue. Those understandings also had to be compatible with the ne…
The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy
The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy
Political Sociology
Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution and machination of power at all levels: individual, organizational, communal, national, and international. Defined thus, political science becomes a subfield of sociology. Parsons (1951), for example, treated the political as one of the four principal domains of sociological analysis. In practice, however, political sociology has developed as a sociolog…
Political sociology
Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution and machinations of power at all levels: individual, organizational, communal, national, and international. Defined thus, political science becomes a subfield of sociology. Talcott Parsons (1951), for example, treats the political as one of the four principal domains of sociological analysis. In practice, however, political sociology has developed as a …
Architecture of Markets
Markets are socially constructed arenas where repeated exchanges occur between buyers and sellers under a set of formal and informal rules governing relations among competitors, suppliers, and customers. These arenas operate according to local understandings and rules that guide interaction, facilitate trade, define what products are produced, indeed constitute the products themselves, and provide stability for buyers, sellers, and producers. Mar…
God's Technicians: Religious Jurists and the Usury Ban in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
At the heart of the $2 trillion Islamic-finance industry is a ban on interest. But why is there only anIslamicban on interest today? After all, for over a millennium, interest was also gravely sinful in Judaism and Christianity. While scholars have addressed the evolution of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic economic morality in isolation, very few since Weber have tackled the interest question directly and comparatively.I argue that the fate of the…
How religio-economic projects succeed and fail: The field dynamics of Islamic finance in the Arab Gulf states and Pakistan, 1975-2018
Why did Islamic finance become durably institutionalized between the 1970s and early 2000s in the Arab Gulf states, where no mass movement demanded it, but not in Pakistan, where activists had demanded it for decades? I argue that institutionalization required a stable coalition among religious authorities, market actors and the state that shared understandings of religio-economic virtue. Those understandings also had to be compatible with the ne…
Halalization: Religious Product Certification in Secular Markets
In Islam, the extension of religious regulation and certification to new product types and economic sectors-'halalization'-has become widespread. There are now Islamic mortgages, halal ports, halal refrigerators, halal blockchain, and shariah-compliant cryptocurrencies. Yet classical secularization theory says religious authority cannot regulate modern economic activity. So what explains halalization? I point to an elective affinity between fiqh …
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works)