1st Edition
The Marketization of Religion
Introduction: the marketization of religion
François Gauthier and Tuomas Martikainen
1. Christmas fairs in Danish churches abroad: a resource mobilisation perspective
Margit Warburg
2. From nation-state to market: The transformations of religion in the global era, as illustrated by Islam
François Gauthier
3. Religious change in market and consumer society: the current state of the field and new ways forward
Marcus Moberg and Tuomas Martikainen
4. Governing religious identities: law and legibility in neoliberalism
Marian Burchardt
5. Religion and the marketplace: constructing the ‘new’ Muslim consumer
Özlem Sandıkcı
6. The marketization of church closures
Jes Heise Rasmussen
Biography
François Gauthier, PhD, is professor ordinarius in Religious Studies at the Social Sciences Department of the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market (Routledge 2020), and has worked together with Tuomas Martikainen since 2009 on a framework for understanding religion in a globalised, neoliberal world. Together they will be co-editors of the forthcoming publication, Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (Routledge, 2021).
Tuomas Martikainen, PhD, is the Director of the Migration Institute of Finland. His research has focussed on international migration, immigrant congregations, governance of religion and contemporary religion. He has worked together with François Gauthier since 2009 in order to develop a new understanding of religion in a globalised, neoliberal world. Together they will be co-editors of the forthcoming publication, Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (Routledge, 2021).
