ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how a more empirically and context-oriented understanding of the concept of the post-secular would benefit considerably from paying particular attention to how the contemporary nexus of religion, media, popular culture, and consumer culture. It strives to refine and develop the concept of the post-secular into a broader interpretive framework for the study of religious change in contemporary Western societies and Western European societies in particular. Even though historical and contemporary relationships between religion and wider socioeconomic arrangements have remained a perhaps somewhat under-researched area within the study of religion in general. The contemporary relationship between religion, consumer capitalism, and consumer culture further highlights how the locations and very category of religion are undergoing significant transformations in late modern times. The chapter concludes by offering some suggestive observations on how the concept of the post-secular could be afforded more substance and be better differentiated from other related current theoretical concepts.
