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The world religion approach assumes that there is an essential entity with a definable identity called religion (e.g., “Islam”), independent of any national or social context. Against this dominant approach, this book has proposed an analysis of religious ideas, movements, and elites embedded in power struggles concerning the creation, defense, and contestation of neoliberal globalization. The latter seems to have morphed into a theocracy with austerity being imposed after the 2008 crisis. Bankers were rescued, households were not. The major insight of the book is that while the conservative-reactionary form of religion appears as a key ally of the neoliberal revolution, religious activists have also been important in contesting neoliberalism. The chapter concludes that the teaching and research of religions needs to take into account the internal differentiation of religious traditions to develop a more nuanced analysis and understanding.
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Dreher, S. (2020). Beyond Neoliberal Theocracy?. In: Religions in International Political Economy . International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41472-6_9
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