This book long awaited book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and location of religion, and that those changes can be understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism. These transformations are often misunderstood and underestimated. The book challenges diagnoses of transience and fragmentation by proposing an alternative narrative and set
of concepts for understanding the global religious landscape. The present situation is framed as the result of a shift from a National-Statist to a Global-Market regime of religion. Adopting a holistic perspective that breaks with the current specialisation tendencies, it charts the emergence of the State and the Market as institutions and ideas related to social order, as well as their changing rapports from classical modernity to today. Breaking with a tradition of Western-centeredness, the book offers probing enquiries into Indonesia and a synthesis of global and Western trends.