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 …

As a defining aspect of contemporary societies (Scholte, 2005), globalisation refers to the
development of an increasingly borderless world where flows and exchanges of people …

This article asks why middle-class Israeli seculars have recently begun to engage with
Jewish religiosity. We use the case of the Jewish New Age (JNA) as an example of the …

Identifying the “religion–ethnicity–well-being” nexus as an understudied topic in marketing
and consumer behavior research, we propose three main trajectories for future research …

This article focuses on how spirituality and commercialism are intertwined in the
representations of yoga in the media. For this study, articles on yoga were collected from …

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book explores modern-day transformations in the amount and …

Very little research has examined the emergence of Western Muslims into the elite
professions that are central to the operation of the capitalist free market and that serve as a …

This article examines motivations for participation in a specific church activity (baby hymn
singing) within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark from a consumer profile …

With late modernity,“religion” has changed again in manifold ways its cultural shape, partly
towards a preference for experiential embodied practices, health preservation, and an even …

The authors outline the framework of 'experience filters' as a theoretical and methodical
approach to grasp the aesthetic effect and the cultural and social influence of religious …