Started Googling about markets being treated as religion, found this 1999 article from the Atlantic:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;past&#x2F;issues&#x2F;99mar&#x2F;marketgod.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;past&#x2F;issues&#x2F;99mar&#x2F;marketgod.htm</a><p>&quot;The East Asians&#x27; troubles, votaries argue, derive from their heretical deviation from free-market orthodoxy -- they were practitioners of &quot;crony capitalism,&quot; of &quot;ethnocapitalism,&quot; of &quot;statist capitalism,&quot; not of the one true faith.&quot;<p>Interesting reading.