Mathew Guest’s book Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-first Century is a concise treatise of the impact of neoliberal culture on religion. It ‘started out as a book about evangelical Protestantism’ (p. 7) but ended up as an analysis of a ‘tendency to merge religious with capitalistic thinking’ (p. 7). While examining neoliberal culture, Guest also comments widely on the state of the sociology of religion in the twenty-first century. Among other issues the book discusses politics, economy, secularism, and – obviously – religion. Mathew Guest is Professor in the Sociology of Religion at Durham University in the UK.

Book review: Mathew Guest: Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-first Century. London: Bloomsbury, 2022, 203 pp.