Bringing together scholars of all ages and stages of career from around the world, the handbook showcases the dynamism of religion in global societies. It is an accessible introduction to new ways of approaching the study of religion practically, theoretically and geographically.

Introduction: Religion in Global Societies; Part I: Market and Branding; 1. Christian Churches’ Responses to Marketization: Comparing Institutional and Non-denominational Discourse and Practice; 2. ‘The Greatest Leader of All’: The Faces of Leadership and Christianity in Contemporary Brazil (1980s–2010s); 3. JPCC: A Megachurch Brand Story in Indonesia; 4. Rebranding the Soul: Rituals for the Well-made Man in Market Society; Part II: Contemporary Ethics and Values; 5. The Prosperity Ethic: The Rise of the New Prosperity Gospel; 6. Islamic Ethics in Muslim Eurasia: Prosperity Theology vs. Renunciation?; 7. Public Morality and the Transformation of Islamic Media in Indonesia; 8. Pious-Modern Subjectivities in the Palestine West Bank: Their Formations and Contours between the Familial, the Local and the Global; 9. ‘We Are Overfed’: Young Evangelicals, Globalization, and Social Justice; 10. ‘Mediacosmologies’: The Convergence and Renewal of Indigenous Religiosities in Cyberspace; Part III: Intimate Identities; 11. Saints, Sinners, and Same-Sex Marriages: Ecclesiological Identity in the Church of England and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark; 12. When Two Worlds Collide: Asian Christian LGBTQs Coming Out to Parents; 13. Gender Politics and Education in the Gülen Movement; 14. Global Catholicism, Gender Conversion and Masculinity; Part IV: Transnational Movements; 15. Pilgrimage, Travelling Gurus and Transnational Networks: The Lay Meditation Movement in Contemporary Chinese Societies; 16. Globalization and Asceticism: Foreigner Ascetics on the Threshold of Hindu Religious Orders; 17. Maya Revival Movements: Between Transnationality and Authenticity; 18. Defending Tradition and Confronting Secularity: The Catholic Buen Pastor Institute; 19. The Globalization of the Catholic Church: History, Organization, Theology; Part V: Diasporic Communities; 20. Dialectics between Transnationalism and Diaspora: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community; 21. Transnational Religious Movement: The Turkish Süleymanlı in Indonesia; 22. Youth Buddhists in Australia: Negotiating Transnational Flows; 23. The Formation of Global Chinese Identities; 24. Church as a Homeland and Home as a Place of Worship: The Transformation of Religiosity among Georgian Migrants in Paris; Part VI: Responses to Diversity; 25. Interreligious Dialogue (IRD) in International Politics: From the Margins of the Religious Field to the Centre of Civil Society; 26. Faith, Identity and Practices: The Current Refugee Crisis and its Challenges to Religious Diversity in Southern Europe; 27. Urban Public Space and the Emergence of Interdenominational Syncretism; 28. ‘As Local as Possible, as International as Necessary’: Investigating the Place of Religious and Faith-Based Actors in the Localization of the International Humanitarian System; 29. Religion, National Identity and Foreign Policy: The Case of Eastern Christians and the French Political Imaginary; 30. Religious Echoes in Secular Dialogues: Global Glimpses of Peacebuilding; 31. City of Gods and Goods: Exploring Religious Pluralism in the Neoliberal City; Part VII: National Tensions; 32. Islam, Politics and Legitimacy: The Role of Saudi Arabia in the Rise of Salafism and Jihadism; 33. Religion and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space: Between State, Society and Nation; 34. Religion, Nationalism and Transnationalism in the South Caucasus; 35. The Sacred and Secular-Economic: A Cross-Country Comparison of the Regulation of the Economic Activities of Religious Organizations. Perspectives from France, Germany, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States; 36. Religious Identities in Times of Crisis: An Analysis of Europe; 37. Poetry in Iran’s Contemporary Theo-Political Culture; Part VIII: Reflections on ‘Religion’; 38. Questioning the Boundaries of ‘Religious’ and Non-Religious’ Actions and Meanings; 39. Religion in the Anthropocene: Nonhuman Agencies, (Re)Enchantment and the Emergence of a New Sensibility; 40. Science and Religion in a Global Context; 41. Religion Through the Lens of ‘Marketization’ and ‘Lifestyle’

The four editors of the Routledge Handbook of Religion in Global Society are to be congratulated on bringing together a stellar team of scholars, both established and emergent, in a publication that is vibrant, varied and packed with information. The book is characterised by inclusivity of subject matter and approaches, and is above all truly contemporary, providing readers with a snapshot of religion in the evermore globalised and interdependent twenty-first century. Carole M. Cusack, Professor, The University of Sydney