This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in
the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when …

A growing body of research describes connections between religion and economic activity
through the language of commodification and marketization. Although this scholarship …

This is a book that started out as one thing and ended up being another. It started out as a
book about evangelical Protestantism–specifically, how this branch of Christianity has been …

This book focuses on the utility and application of discourse theory and discourse analysis in
the sociological study of religious change. It presents an outline of what a 'discursive …

This article has three parts. The first analyses how notions of the market and of marketisation
have been literally and metaphorically applied to the study of religion. The article argues in …

Like any other subject, the study of religion is a child of its time. Shaped and forged over the
course of the twentieth century, it has reflected the interests and political situation of the …

This chapter proposes that a new prosperity gospel is rising. We call it the prosperity ethic.
The ethic has two features: sacralizing self-help and celebrating consumption. Taken …

Marketization is a profound force transforming societies, including how people relate to and
practice religion. Drawing from a synthesis of interdisciplinary studies, we approach …

This article starts with a critique of the current mainstream approaches that share the implicit
assumptions of what I call the “secularization paradigm”, showing how and why these …

The term “neoliberalism” has variable and broad meanings. It has even been suggested that
we should dispense with the term altogether. However, in this text, I defend that we can find …