Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge / Knowledge & Power)
"In anthropology, the value  of inspiring ideas in any period depends on their realization in convincing ethnographic achievements. In this regard,Spiritual Economiesis a bravura performance: at the site of Krakatau Steel, it shows the power and kinship of experiments in neoliberal economy, religious revival, ethnography—and para-ethnography—all in the same frame."—George E. Marcus, author ofEthnography Through Thick and Thin"In the clearly written and strongly arguedSpiritual Economies, Daromir Rudnyckyj brings together the anthropology of development and globalization and the anthropology of the rising Islamic piety movement to show that religious resurgence can be part of globalizing economic development, not necessarily a refuge from it. He traces many of Indonesia's recent political and religious transformations from the vantage point of a steel factory, where the ESQ spiritual training program combines spiritual guidance, business success training, and a vision of Islam as predictive and encompassing of science and technology."—John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, and author ofCan Islam Be French?