Neoliberalism as Religion: Sacralization of the Market and Post-truth Politics

Since the 2008 financial crisis, depictions of neoliberalism as a religion, system of belief, and “kind of faith” have multiplied in an attempt to explain neoliberalism's remarkable power and resilience. These accounts, however, have remained largely impressionistic. In this article, I interrogate the meanings, implications, and value of conceptualizing neoliberalism as religion and advance two main claims. First, the power of neoliberalism...