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This book explores neoliberal culture and its impact on religious identities. The social scientific study of religion must adapt accordingly if we are to comprehend current trends. A series of innovative - and sometimes unexpected examples - brings the debate to life, not least its ethical implications. This is a book to ponder carefully. * Grace Davie, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter, UK * Mathew Guest directs our attention to the fact that our era is traversed by market ideologies and imaginaries in the guise of neoliberalism and consumerism, and that this is crucial for understanding religion. Using a cultural approach that considers religion in wider society rather than looking at it in isolation, he perspicaciously analyses the way in which neoliberalism affects religion through discussions on marketization, populism, the rise of post-truth claims, securitization and the entrepreneurial self. It should be widely read. * Francois Gauthier, Full Professor of Religious Studies, University of Friborg, Switzerland *

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Mathew Guest is Professor in the Sociology of Religion at Durham University, UK. He is the co-author of Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith (2013) and Islam on Campus: Contested identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain (2020). He is the author of Evangelical Identity and Contemporary Culture (2007).

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