Screen LibraryReligion in consumer society : brands, consumers, and markets /
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society series
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 250 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-246) and index. |
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9781409449867 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 1409449866 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1409449874 (ebook) 9781409449874 (ebook) 1472403533 (epub) 9781472403537 (epub) |
| Index Number: | BL98 |
| CLC: | B929 |
| Call Number: | B929/R382-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction : Consumerism as the ethos of consumer society / Francois Gauthier, Linda Woodhead, and Tuomas Martikainen -- Religion, individualisation, and consumerism : Constructions of religiousity 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. |