In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, depictions of neoliberalism as 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 stems from being a rationality of government that continuously evokes religious meanings and significations. Neoliberalism displaces and redraws the boundary between secular and religious, and appropriates an aura of sacredness while concealing itself behind an authoritative secular rational facade. Second, one of the outcomes of the neoliberal “sacralization” of the market has been the emergence of so-called “post-truth politics.” The latter, I contend, can be conceptualized as a neoliberal “truth market” of news production, circulation, and consumption that is governed simultaneously by logics of commodification and belief. This analysis aims to contribute to existing debates on secularization, on neoliberalism’s resilience, and on post-truth politics by showing their interconnectedness through a critical approach that focuses on the disarticulation, rearticulation, and deployment of the categories of the secular/profane and sacred/religious in neoliberal regimes of power and knowledge.

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作为宗教的新自由主义：市场的圣化和真相后的政治

在2008年金融危机之后，对新自由主义的宗教，信仰体系和“信仰种类”的描述越来越多，试图解释新自由主义的非凡力量和韧性。但是，这些说明在很大程度上仍然是印象派的。在本文中，我探讨了将新自由主义概念化为宗教的含义，含义和价值，并提出了两个主要主张。首先，新自由主义的力量源于政府的理性，这种理性不断唤起宗教意义和意义。新自由主义取代并重画了世俗与宗教之间的界限，并在将自己隐藏在权威的世俗理性立面之后的同时，赋予了神圣的光环。第二，市场新自由主义“圣化”的结果之一就是所谓的“后真相政治”的出现。我认为，后者可以被概念化为新闻生产，发行和消费的新自由主义“真相市场”，由商品化和信仰逻辑同时控制。该分析旨在通过一种批判性方法来展示世俗化，新世俗主义和神圣/新自由主义政权和知识体系中的宗教信仰。以及由商品化和信仰逻辑同时支配的消费。该分析旨在通过一种批判性方法来展示世俗化，新世俗主义和神圣/新自由主义政权和知识体系中的宗教信仰。以及由商品化和信仰逻辑同时支配的消费。该分析旨在通过一种批评性的方法来展示它们之间的相互联系，从而致力于世俗化，新自由主义的弹性以及后真理政治的现有辩论，这些批评方法的重点是非世俗，亵渎和神圣新自由主义政权和知识体系中的宗教信仰。