Religion in the Market Era

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Religion in the Market Era is written by François Gauthier and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040230350 (ISBN 10) and 9781040230350 (ISBN 13).

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.