Religion in the Market Era

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

François Gauthier

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9780367682217
• eBook ISBN: 9781040230350
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Ideologies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 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 Religion in Orthodox-Majority Eastern Europe: From Communism to the Global-Market
• 5 Chinese Revolutions I: The Making of Religion in the Nation-State Regime
• 6 Chinese Revolutions II: Booming Economy, Booming Religion
• 7 Conclusion
• Index