The consequences of identity politics in patterning religious experience and affiliation today, described here as an aspect of a new territoriality, are vast in many fields. The functional relation existing between a new territoriality defined by network, biopolitics as a form of control and the spectacularization (i.e., the visible nature) of identities greatly affects the field of religion today. In this new territorial environment, networks suffocate internal dissidence on doctrinal and theological matters, and in facing the outside world they stress their unity by means of the management of bodies, placing a premium on exterior signs of belonging.