Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 Spirits of capitalism and the commodification of the soul -- CHAPTER 1 The closed circle: Marxism, Christianity and the 'End of History' -- CHAPTER 2 Religion and the 'enterprise culture': the British experience from Thatcher to Blair (1979-2000) -- CHAPTER 3 Power and empowerment: New Age managers and the dialectics of modernity/postmodernity -- CHAPTER 4 The end of the university and the last academic? -- PART 2 Theology and power in the matrix of modernity/postmodernity -- CHAPTER 5 Lord, bondsman and churchman: integrity, identity and power in Anglicanism -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY ANGLICAN PROBLEM OF SELF-DEFINITION -- LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE: HEGEL'S PREFIGUREMENT OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL THEORY -- INTEGRITY: THE QUEST FOR METHOD -- IDENTITY: THE ASSERTION OF ESSENCE -- POWER: THE TRANSVALUATION OF AUTHORITY -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6 Ruling the Body: the care of souls in a managerial church -- FROM CRISIS OF AUTHORITY TO LEGITIMATION OF POWER: MANAGERIALISM AS ECCLESIAL RESTORATION -- THE MANAGER'S 'RIGHT TO MANAGE': RESTRUCTURING AN EXECUTIVE CHURCH -- CULTURES OF PERFORMATIVITY AND APPRAISAL: EPISCOPE AND THE ECCLESIAL PANOPTICON -- MANAGERIAL MODERNITY AND THE CLOSURE OF TRANSCENDENCE -- THE CARE OF 'SOUL( S)' IN THE SPIRITUAL MARKET-PLACE -- CONCLUSION: PRIMAL RELIGION AND THE ECOLOGIES OF THE SPIRIT -- CHAPTER 7 Theology and the social sciences -- INTRODUCTION -- THEOLOGIANS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: SURVEY AND TYPOLOGY -- Theology repels the social sciences: fundamentalism -- Ernst Troeltsch: sociology overcomes theology -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: theology recruits sociology -- Edward Farley: theology and social science mutually merged?.

Postmodern quasi-fundamentalism (John Milbank) -- THEOLOGY'S USE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE: SOME OBSERVATIONS -- THEOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: A TENTATIVE AGENDA -- PART 3 Religion and social science: identity, globalisation and the transmutation of the religious field -- CHAPTER 8 The souls of Europe: identity, religion and theology -- INTRODUCTION: 'DIVINITY' AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- THE 'SOULS OF EUROPE' AND THE POSTMODERN PROBLEMATIC -- 'EUROPE' AS PERIODISATION AND TYPOLOGY -- PRE-MODERNITY IDENTITY: CATHOLIC TRADITION -- IDENTITY AS ACCOMMODATION: LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM -- PROMETHEAN MODERNITY: THE NEGATION OF 'EUROPE' -- 'EUROPE' AND THE OTHER -- THE 'NEW EUROPE' AND A 'GREATER EUROPE' -- 'DIVINITY' AND ITS TASKS -- CHAPTER 9 Globalised religion? The Parliament of the World's Religions (Chicago, 1993) in theoretical perspective -- INTRODUCTION -- THE 1993 PARLIAMENT: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE -- INTEGRATION STRATEGY: GLOBAL VALUES AND PARTICULAR RELIGION -- THEORETICAL CONTEXTUALISATION: EMANCIPATORY GLOBAL RELIGION? -- Religion and globalisation theory -- Religion, 'meta-theory' and the 'condition of postmodernity' -- RELIGION AS RESOURCE: A 'CULTURAL CAPITAL' APPROACH -- THE CHICAGO PARLIAMENT AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION -- CHAPTER 10 Time, virtuality and the Goddess: transmutations of the religious field -- INTRODUCTION -- FINDING TIMES: TRANSMUTATIONS OF RELIGION, TIME AND IDENTITY -- THEOLOGY, MODERNITY AND THE TEMPORAL MATRIX -- MODERNISM AS POSTMODERNITY: THE TIME/SPACE MATRIX -- VIRTUALITIES, CYBORGS AND REDEMPTIONS OF THE 'FLESH' -- GENDERED ULTIMACIES AND THE RELIGIOUS FIELD: THE CHTHONIC IMPERATIVE -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 11 Identity as vocation: the prospect for religion -- Bibliography -- Index.