I am well aware of how religious beliefs play into the bosses' hands, and I understand the "historically contingent" facts concerning how the U.S. has long been a magnet for Christian fundamentalists, or how various governments have financed jihadist organizations to achieve various short-term political goals (e.g. fighting the Soviets or Fatah). And certainly post-war U.S. economic growth has given various fundamentalist groups the resources to send missionaries all over the world to spread a very illiberal version of the faith.
What I wonder, though, is if there is a deeper process at work here -- something that explains why illiberal religious fundamentalism has spread across the world alongside the supposedly liberalizing forces of capitalism. I am somewhat familiar with Adorno's work on irrational culture (e.g. astrology and occultism) and capitalism, but Christofascism and Jihadism seem to be qualitatively distinct from the L.A. Times astrology columns.
OTOH, maybe I'm just looking for a "deep" answer where none is necessary.
-WD