In this clip from the Beauty at Work podcast, Prof. Marco Ventura — legal scholar, expert on religion and public policy, and former director of the Center for Religious Studies at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy — explains his influential framework for understanding the encounter between religion and innovation.

Drawing on work developed with his research team in Europe, Marco outlines a triangular model:

1. How religious traditions innovate internally
2. How religions contribute to innovation in society and markets
3. How innovation itself can become a quasi-religion

This conversation bridges theology, law, technology, and economics — and asks what happens when innovation becomes the dominant language of meaning in the modern world.

You can watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/af8qE3mM1Jk

To learn more about Marco’s work, you can find him at: 
https://credo.unisi.it/about/secretariat-and-experts/person/marco

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