Abstract

Money plays a fundamental role in the choices of the faithful, both in individual decisions and in the orientation of the economy. There are many sectors of intersection: from voluntary contributions, in view of the achievement of moral objectives, to non-donative interventions, in exchange for goods/services. On a genral level, on the other hand, in the contrast between a totally deregulated globalized world and a politics incapable of managing the universality of the market, religions are inserted in the reconquest of spaces in the public sphere, even with a funtction that we could define as “alternateµ. R. Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, dedicated an interesting lecutre to this topic in 1956, in which he emphasized the importance of money but also that the economy of a nation is not goverend by it, but by products and the ability to production, which is the only instrument capable of stabilizing the economy. His analysis, which starts from the observation of the great economic crisis that affected the United States at that time, is therefore a project of a finance that we can define as “ethicalµ.