Ever since the days of Karl Marx, leftists have been arguing that there is a 'totalizing logic of capital'. The idea is that as capitalism penetrates into more and more of the world's sheltered places, it has an insidious effect on whatever it comes in contact with. It may not outwardly transform the appearance of these places, but rearranges what we can think of as their 'molecular structure' so that they no longer function as they once did. After their run-in with capitalism, these places become like the figures in Invasion of the Body Snatchers who seem to be normal human beings, but have actually become hosts for an alien lifeform. Perhaps The Fly provides a more appropriate metaphor.
Religious movements are more than a Trojan horse for capitalism.
Indeed, capitalism has also become a Trojan horse for religion. The resurgence of religion in contemporary society is the result of a process of hybridization. The totalizing logic of capital hasn't replaced the traditional logic of religion, so much as fuse with it. It's almost as if the people who run universities are taking their cue from these religious leaders. They try to prevent the demise of universities by making them function more and more like corporations in the 'real world'.