Religion in the Market Era

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.