Religious values and norms often clash with the hedonistic consumer when the global market economy frees itself from prior constraints, religious limitations included, in favor of rules of supply and demand. Accordingly, the advent of the global economy and consumer are powerful secularizers of the public sphere that seem to erode the hold of religion on economic life and, possibly, on social and political life. Shopping, as Benjamin Barber notes, little tolerance for blue laws, whether dictated by pubclosing British paternalism, Sabbath-observing Jewish Orthodox, or no-Sunday liquorsale Massachusetts Puritanism.1 Secularism is often associated with the process of modernization and with the modus vivendi entailed in the separation of church and state that underscores liberal values and democracy. However, while practices associated with consumer are secularizing the public sphere, these practices may be separate from a comprehensive and principled secularism and from embedded liberal values. Specifically, the relation between secular practices, underscored by economic incentives, and deeper secular commitments associated with struggles for church-state separation and with liberal values could be rather weak. Consequently, the rise of secularism based on practices of everyday life may be dissociated from the rise of a secular society with liberal values such as religious freedom, tolerance towards minorities, and commitment to equality. The term culture war has been used to describe renewed religious-secular struggles in various countries over different spheres of contemporary life politics, economy, family, education, media, arts, and law. Yet this description, as elaborated below, falls short of capturing the complexities of religious-secular struggles, the secularizing impact of a globalizing market economy, and, most important, the implications for liberal values and democracy at large. The global market economy and consumer culture, argues Barber, has little patience for religious demands but also a limited commitment to democratic values.2