book reviews 489 © 2008 The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Association for the Journal of Religious History theological faculties and how they came to exert such influence abroad. Theological students from all over the world, not just North America and Britain, were drawn to study at the feet of German “super” professors. Finally, there is much to be learned from Hudson’s work that has relevance far beyond the international community of theologians. In the end it is a most instructive study about what constitutes “scientific theology” and as such a major contribution to modern German intellectual history. John A. Moses St Mark’s National Theological Centre Dolores Janiewski, and Paul Morris: New Rights New Zealand: Myths, Moralities and Markets. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005; pp. viii + 206. David Loy’s essay “The Religion of the Market” (2000) drew attention to the ways in which economic theory was becoming theologised, treated as possessing a sui generis status, and how this in part stemmed from the Christian roots of secular Western society. Janiewski and Morris have made an important contribution to this area of research in providing a detailed examination of the implementation of “New Right” policies in New Zealand from 1984 to 2004. The religious significance of this political shift is carefully spelled out, chiefly with reference to the Biblical narratives of Genesis and Exodus. The authors demonstrate conclusively that although New Zealand has low rates of church attendance and is apparently religiously indifferent, the myths of Judeo-Christianity, and moral discourses drawn from these myths, are still extremely powerful in both popular and academic rhetoric. In case it be thought that such a book (with its detailed portraits of key players in the rise of the New Right in New Zealand) is too parochial to reach a broad reading public, it must be noted that New Right politics and economics in neighbouring Aus- tralia, and in the United Kingdom and the United States are covered as well. Key intel- lectual influences, including Friedrich von Hayek (The Road to Serfdom [1944]), Karl Popper (The Open Society and its Enemies [1944]) and Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom [1962]) are examined, and the importance of Communism (Russia, China) and the Christian opposition to it (and Labour and other leftist parties in demo- cratic countries) is cogently presented. The Communist states opposed both religion and free market economics, thus linking them to the thought of those opposed to Communism. Some New Right leaders were sincere practising Christians, others were merely social conservatives who believed the moral codes of Christianity were the religion’s most important legacy. The analysis of the relationship between radical economic deregulation and social conservatism is deeply intriguing and returns the focus to religion. In secularised countries like New Zealand and Australia most have abandoned the prescriptive moral codes and socially conservative attitudes, living together without marriage, favouring liberal divorce laws, and asserting that homosexuality and others non-mainstream lifestyle choices should be supported equally. Chapter 5, “Revelation: Marketing Morality,” examines the way in which the New Right redefined freedom, so that previously cherished principles such as social justice, welfare assistance, and state- sponsored education and health became “oppressive” and a denial of individual freedom and self-reliance. This, interestingly, helps to explain why religion is generally considered important, if not central, for New Right thinkers and politicians (where