François Gauthier

Religion in the Market Era (eBook, PDF)

The Rise of Market Islam, the Revenge of Confucius, and Other Stories From a Global Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040230305
• Artikelnr.: 74285672

Autorenporträt

François Gauthier is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 The Rise of Market Islam I: Islamism, From State Focus to Lifestyle
3 The Rise of Market Islam II: Halalising Islam, From Fashions and Foods to
Finance
4 From Stalin to the Market: Religion in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe
5 Chinese Revolutions 1 (1898-1978): The Making of Religion
6 Chinese Revolutions 2 (1978-2022): Booming Economy, Booming Religion
7 Conclusion