In relation to the current postings, as distinctions among various   
combinations of the words 'economics' and 'religion' are made, along   
with various qualifiers, it might be worth drawing attention to the   
following book:  
  
Robert H. Nelson, Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago   
and Beyond (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State   
University Press, 2001).  
  
Those interested in the relationships between economics and religion,   
both as aspects of experience and as aspects of conceptual systems,   
(not to mention various relationships between the experiential and   
the theoretical) have an enormous field to survey.  No doubt each is   
relevant in its own way.  
  
Bruce Larson