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The I-Zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2018)
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The I-Zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2018)
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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
example, global capitalism) but also our inner, personal lives,
through its expansion in the digital world, facilitated by various
i-technology applications; (2) the McDonaldization process has now
been normalized; and (3) religiosity has been standardized.
Reviewing the new inequalities present in this i-society, the book
considers their impact on Jurgen Habermas's project of
post-secularism, and appraises the roles that various religions may
have in supporting and/or countering this process. It concludes by
arguing that Habermas's post-secular project will occur but that,
paradoxically, the religious message(s) will be instrumentalized
for capitalist purposes.
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