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AS PROTESTANT Europe, in its own eyes virtuous and thrifty, wrestles with the debt problems of the continent’s Catholic and Orthodox countries, the idea that religious affiliation may influence the way people save, work and spend is more appealing than ever. The toppling of Arab tyrants has lent urgency to a similar enquiry: do Islam and Islamism permit the legal and social conditions that make for prosperity?
Clearly many modern religious leaders have strong ideas about economics. In western Europe, organised Christianity often acts as a modest voice in the ranks of the egalitarian left. This month’s anti-banker protests in London initially found a friendly base for their tent city at Saint Paul’s cathedral. (In recent days, Richard Chartres, the bishop of London, has asked them to leave, while acknowledging that they had raised important issues.) In America religious voices both praise and decry the capitalist order. Also on the borderline between economics and ethics, many religious leaders have taken up the cause of climate change, and urged people to change their behaviour—though this week an Australian cardinal, George Pell, bucked that trend by addressing a group of climate-change sceptics in London.

A. 어휘
relevance 관련성, 적절, 타당성. Faith 신앙.
virtuous 도덕성이 있는, 고결한. thrifty 儉約(검약)한.
Orthodox 동방정교회의, 정통적인. affiliation 提携(제휴), 합병.
toppling 顚覆(전복). tyrants 폭군, 독재자. urgency 절박, 긴급.
enquiry 질문. legal 법적인. make for 이바지 하다, ...쪽으로 가다.
prosperity 번영. ranks 多衆(다중), 병졸, 군대. egalitarian 평등주의의.
initially 처음에. cathedral 大聖堂(대성당). bishop 주교.
decry 비난하다. ethics 윤리. cause 주장, 목적, 명분, 大義(대의).
urge 촉구하다. cardinal 樞機卿(추기경). buck 격려하다, 반항하다.
sceptics 회의론자.