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

By François Gauthier

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367682214
• ISBN13: 9780367682217
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"