Religion in Consumer Society : brands, Consumers and Markets
This book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, focus on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Claiming that we are entering a new phase of state-religion relations, t...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Religion in Consumer Society : brands, Consumers and Markets / edited by François Gauthier, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Tuomas Martikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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New York :
Routledge
, 2016 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XVII-250 p.) |
Collection : | Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society series editors Linda Woodhead,..., Rebecca Catto,... |
Contenu : | Introduction : Consumerism as the ethos of consumer society / Francois Gauthier, Linda Woodhead, and Tuomas Martikainen. Religion, individualisation, and consumerism : Constructions of religiosity in 'liquid' and 'reflexive' modernity / Simon Speck. From standardised offer to consumer adaptation : Challenges to the church of Sweden's identity / Per Pettersson. Packaging religious experience, selling modular religion : Explaining the emergence and expansion of megachurches / Stephen Ellingson. The paradoxes of new Monasticism in the consumer society / Stefania Palmisano. 'Find your inner God and breathe' : Buddhism, pop culture, and contemporary metamorphoses in American Judaism / Mira Niculescu. Shopping for a church? Choice and commitment in religious behaviour / Francesca E.S. Montemaggi. Entangled modernity and commodified religion : Alternative spirituality in the 'new middle class' / Andrew Dawson. The enchantments of consumer capitalism : Beyond belief at the Burning Man festival / Francois Gauthier. Buddha for sale! The commoditisation of Tibetan Buddhism in Scotland / John S. McKenzie. Mutual interests? Neoliberalism and New Age during the 1980s / Lars Ahlin. Healing or dealing? Neospiritual therapies and coaching as individual meaning and social discipline in late modern Swedish society / Anne-Christine Hornborg. Valuing spirituality : Commodification, consumption, and community in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman |
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