Religion and the Welfare State under Neoliberal Hegemony
: Martikainen, Tuomas
: Wegner, Gerhard
: 2015
: The Legitimacy of the Welfare State: Religion - Gender - Neoliberalism
: 139
: 151
: 978-3-374-04138-1
This chapter asks the following three questions: How have religions reacted to neoliberalism? Has neoliberalism altered the relationship between religions and the welfare state? What long-term consequences may changed welfare state–religion relations imply? While I acknowledge that the changes due to globalization and neoliberalism are by necessity situated in a particular historical and social context (cf. glocalisation, Robertson 1995), I still want to mention that I do claim that the national frame of reference, with its implicitly nationally path-dependent and methodologically nationalist reasoning, does not capture alone the transformation brought about by globalization and neoliberalism.