This paper scrutinizes the assumption that civil society has a positive relationship with democracy. Comparing the ways in which different business networks in Turkey mobilize religious solidarity to construct market relations I argue that business groups may have divergent effects on the consolidation of democracy. For this study I will compare two predominant devout bourgeois networks in Turkey: the Fethullah Gulen Network and MUSIAD. This paper shows that Gulen network follows an expansionist strategy and use market relations to proselytize the society whereas MUSIAD prefers a non-expansionist strategy and an accommodationist approach to the market. This divergence, I contend, has significant implications for understanding the role devout business plays in the consolidation of democracy in Turkey. I suggest that the ways in which devout bourgeois networks connect religion and market have diverging implications for the compatibility of religion (Islam) and democracy, for while the first type undermines tolerance and pluralism, the second type strengthens tolerance and contribute to pluralism. In this respect, the paper challenges the expectation that business and markets have a natural positive impact on the consolidation of democracy by claiming that the relationship is rather complex and can take different forms.