Political Religion and Religious Politics: Navigating Identities in the United States (Routledge Series on Identity Politics) by David S. Gutterman & Andrew R. Murphy

Author:David S. Gutterman & Andrew R. Murphy [Gutterman, David S. & Murphy, Andrew R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781136339233
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-14T00:00:00+00:00

Rodgers traces the rise of neoliberal “[f]aith in the wisdom and efficiency of markets, disdain for big government taxation, spending, and regulation, reverence for a globalized world of flexible labor pools, free trade, and free-floating capital” (2011, 75) to a position of almost unchallenged hegemony in the final quarter of the twentieth century.

In its refusal to locate the roots of dehumanization and oppression in institutional structures of domination, and in its insistence that individual benefits and prosperity will flow from faith and positive thinking, neoliberalization prosperity theology turns traditional liberation theology, and prophetic religion more generally, on its head. Such an orientation is a far cry, of course, not simply from the politically progressive, community-oriented tendencies within the American mainline during recent decades, but also from Roman Catholic liberation theology, with its Marxist-inflected analysis of structures of power (Berryman 1986; Boff 1987; Gutiérrez 1973), and the prophetic Protestantism of the American black church (Hollinger 2013; Lincoln and Mamiya 1990). As such, the Prosperity Gospel fits within broader scholarly conversations about neoliberalism and the neoliberal ideal of social life, which, according to William Davies (2014) represents “an attempt to remake social and personal life in its entirety, around an ideal of enterprise and performance.” It also illustrates Davies’s claim that neoliberal impulses

targe[t] institutions and activities which lie outside of the market, such as universities, households, public administrations and trade unions … to bring them inside the market, through acts of privatization; or to reinvent them in a “market-like” way; or simply to neutralize or disband them.

(Davies 2014)

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