Formulation of the Theoretical Constellation Supporting the Structural Adjustment Program(ASP) in terms of its Encounter with the Religious

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Authors
1 Department of Sociology , College of Economy, management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
2 Department of Sociology, Social Sciences Faculty, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
3 Department of Economic Development and Planning, Faculty of Economics, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Sociology, College of Economy, management and Social Sciences, Shiraz University,Shiraz, Iran
10.22047/hsd.2025.481694.1029
Abstract
The present research with a transdisciplinary approach is a scientific study of religion, combination of sociology of religion and institutional political economy, which in the form of a descriptive-analytical study deals with the issue of how economic approaches and religious and faith approaches in the theoretical constellation supporting the structural adjustment program (SAP) encounter with the religious? In response, the documentary method employed in the form of fundamental research. The findings indicate that in this encounter, a model of the return of religion to the public sphere in a neoliberal, evangelical and neoconservative style is emerging within the context of financial and rentier capitalism. In the economic approaches supporting SAP, three trends were identified: "The financialization of the collective life system", "the inversion of the welfare state" and "the inflammation and pervasive rupture resulting from the implementation of SAP as a multidimensional destructive prescription". In the religious approaches supporting SAP, three trends were identified: "construction and domestication the religious justification for the inversion of the welfare state through evangelization of religions", "The return of religion to the public sphere in the neoliberal and evangelical style" and "the formation of neoliberal and evangelical resistance spiritualities". Thus, the dominance of the religious enterprise logic has led to the inversion and evacuation of justice and freedom. SAP becomes the engine of creating consecutive shocks and uncertainty. It involves people and governments in colonial relations and global institutional domination. The religious is inverted and evacuated. The colonization and the collapse of religion are accelerating.
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