Overview
- Proposes an analysis of religion and economic development embedded in power struggles concerning neoliberal globalization
- Asserts that religious activism is intersected with the proliferation of and resistance to neoliberal capitalism
- Identifies case studies of religious nationalism and religious feminism as factors undermining hegemonic economic power structures
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book shows how religions and their internal struggles shape key actors and processes in the international political economy. It highlights how fundamentalist, business-oriented Christians in the United States were instrumental in the neoliberal turn in US hegemony, how Christianity, in the form of prosperity religion, transformed Latin America, and how reactionary religious movements sharpened state competition through illiberal politics in Turkey, India, and elsewhere. But reactionary movements are also confronted by liberationist or more progressive movements, such as Islamic feminism, that seek to build a more inclusive global economy. Religions and their ideas should be seen as a constitutive part of neoliberal globalization and its contestation in IPE.
Reviews
- Jerry Harris, National Secretary, Global Studies Association of North America, Professor Emeritus of History at DeVry University, Chicago.
“This unique and much needed volume offers prescient insights into the role of religion in neoliberal political economy as well as its manifold contestations. Sabine Dreher surveys a wide range of politicized manifestations of religiosity in diverse geographic settings and brilliantly captures religion’s crucial though contradictory place in contemporary globalizing world. This book deserves to be widely read.”
- Rafal Soborski, Professor of International Politics, Richmond: the American International University in London
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sabine Dreher (Dr. rer. Pol.) is Adjunct Professor in the Department of International Studies, Glendon College at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religions in International Political Economy
Authors: Sabine Dreher
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41472-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41471-9Published: 03 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41474-0Published: 03 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41472-6Published: 02 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 225
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy