Religion in the Market Era The Rise of Market Islam, the Revenge of Confucius, and Other Stories From a Global Age [#926117]

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English | June 6, 2025 | ISBN: 0367682214 | 344 pages | PDF | 6.76 Mb
This book aims to expand the limits of the social-scientific study of religion and define a coherent model of recent global transformations of religion, challenging the paradigm of secularisation and post-secularisation. Using a wide-ranging selection of case studies, including global Islam, post-Soviet Eastern Europe, and China, the author argues that since the 1980s, religion has been dramatically shaped around the world by neoliberalism and consumerism. Providing a global, macro-level history of how religion has changed in the past four decades, this book contends that the rise of economics as a dominant social sphere is central to understanding the ongoing changes in contemporary world religions.