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Adam Possamai

The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism

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This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this hegemony, and others are simply following the signs of the times, changes have been so significant that religion is no longer what it used to be. Linking theories from Fredric Jameson and George Ritzer, this book presents the argument that our present society is going through a process of i-zation in which (1) capitalism dominates not only our outer, social lives (through, for… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-981-10-5941-4
  • EAN: 9789811059414
  • Produktnummer: 23663258
  • Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 244 S.
  • Masse: H21.9 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.9 cm 464 g
  • Abbildungen: Book; Bibliographie
  • Gewicht: 464

Über den Autor


Adam Possamai is Professor in Sociology and Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University. He is the (co)author and (co)editor of a dozen academic books, 5 novels, and close to 80 refereed articles and book chapters. He is the past President of the International Sociological Association's Committee 22 on the Sociology of Religion. He has been a visiting Professor at the City University of New York and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His latest books are Religions, Nations and Transnationalism in Multiple Modernities (edited with Patrick Michel and Bryan Turner, 2017, Palgrave McMillan),  Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples (edited with James Cox, 2016, Routledge), The Sociology of Shari'a: Case Studies from Around the World (edited with James Richardson and Bryan Turner, 2015, Springer) and the novel L'histoire extraordinaire de Baudelaire (2017, Rivière Blanche). 

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