Monks, Money, and Morality: The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism. Edited by Christoph Brumann, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, and Beata Świtek. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 255 pages. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781350213753.
Religion and economics is an area of ever-increasing scholarship, particularly within studies of Buddhism, despite still being in its early stages. The first book-length entry to Buddhism and economics, Buddhism and Business, edited by Trine Brox and Elizabeth Williams-Øerberg, explores the evolving relationship between Buddhism and business on a global scale, focusing on ethnographically grounded theoretical explorations of this area. Monks, Money, and Morality, edited by Christoph Brumann, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, and Beata Świtek, fruitfully turns its focus to questions of money and its associated moral quandaries within Buddhist spaces.