Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the opiate of the bourgeoisie

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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