The Marketization of Religion

The Marketization of Religion provides a novel theoretical understanding of the relationship between religion and economy of today's world. The chapters provide both theoretical and empirical discussion of the changing dynamics of economy and religion in today's world.

Autorentext

François Gauthier, PhD, is professor ordinarius in Religious Studies at the Social Sciences Department of the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market (Routledge 2020), and has worked together with Tuomas Martikainen since 2009 on a framework for understanding religion in a globalised, neoliberal world. Together they will be co-editors of the forthcoming publication, Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (Routledge, 2021).

Tuomas Martikainen, PhD, is the Director of the Migration Institute of Finland. His research has focussed on international migration, immigrant congregations, governance of religion and contemporary religion. He has worked together with François Gauthier since 2009 in order to develop a new understanding of religion in a globalised, neoliberal world. Together they will be co-editors of the forthcoming publication, Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (Routledge, 2021).

Inhalt

Introduction: the marketization of religion

1. Christmas fairs in Danish churches abroad: a resource mobilisation perspective
2. From nation-state to market: The transformations of religion in the global era, as illustrated by Islam
3. Religious change in market and consumer society: the current state of the field and new ways forward
4. Governing religious identities: law and legibility in neoliberalism
5. Religion and the marketplace: constructing the 'new' Muslim consumer
6. The marketization of church closure