Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie 9781472533371, 1472533372
Talk of 'spirituality' and 'individual religion' is proliferating both in popular discourse and scho
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Table of contents :
Cover
HalfTitle
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE Religion, capitalism, and social theory
1 “Individuality is zero”
Durkheim against Spencer
Durkheim’s savages
Taking sides
Durkheim’s vestiges
2 Theorizing “individual religion”
On the reach and integration of “religion”
Toward the restriction of “religion”
Losing “religion”
Individualism and consumer conformity
Conclusion
3 Our “religion” of the status quo
On “spirituality”
William James and spirituality
Jesus in late capitalism
Conclusion
PART TWO The opiate of the bourgeoisie
4 Quietism: The empire’s gospel
The Gospel According to Biff
A true false story
Religion is mostly nonsense (or worse)
Good religion: Be kind
Imperial ideology for privileged liberals
5 Consumerism: The fashionable hijab
Determined “freedom”
Nonthreatening Islam, consumer muslims
True Islam: Freedom of choice
True Islam: The pursuit of career
Fashion
Universal legitimation
A bourgeois lifestyle for everyone
6 Productivity: The new protestant work ethic
Work as a Spiritual Practice
The Reinvention of Work
Conclusion
7 Individualism: A capital theodicy
“Individualism” as capital theodicy
God Wears Lipstick
The Power of Now
Conclusion
Afterword: Things at the disposal of society
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Cover
HalfTitle
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE Religion, capitalism, and social theory
1 “Individuality is zero”
Durkheim against Spencer
Durkheim’s savages
Taking sides
Durkheim’s vestiges
2 Theorizing “individual religion”
On the reach and integration of “religion”
Toward the restriction of “religion”
Losing “religion”
Individualism and consumer conformity
Conclusion
3 Our “religion” of the status quo
On “spirituality”
William James and spirituality
Jesus in late capitalism
Conclusion
PART TWO The opiate of the bourgeoisie
4 Quietism: The empire’s gospel
The Gospel According to Biff
A true false story
Religion is mostly nonsense (or worse)
Good religion: Be kind
Imperial ideology for privileged liberals
5 Consumerism: The fashionable hijab
Determined “freedom”
Nonthreatening Islam, consumer muslims
True Islam: Freedom of choice
True Islam: The pursuit of career
Fashion
Universal legitimation
A bourgeois lifestyle for everyone
6 Productivity: The new protestant work ethic
Work as a Spiritual Practice
The Reinvention of Work
Conclusion
7 Individualism: A capital theodicy
“Individualism” as capital theodicy
God Wears Lipstick
The Power of Now
Conclusion
Afterword: Things at the disposal of society
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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