Selling Spirituality
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Selling Spirituality

The Silent Takeover of Religion

Jeremy Carrette, Richard King

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Selling Spirituality

The Silent Takeover of Religion

Jeremy Carrette, Richard King

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From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism.

Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace - a cultural addiction that reflects orthodox politics, curbs self-expression and colonizes Eastern beliefs.
Exposing how spirituality has today come to embody the privatization of religion in the modern West, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King reveal the people and brands who profit from this corporate hijack, and explore how spirituality can be reclaimed as a means of resistance to capitalism and its deceptions.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2004
ISBN
9781134415977
Edition
1
Topic
Teología y religión
Subtopic
Religión

Index

  • Alcoholics Anonymous42
  • Allport, Gordon41, 74–5, 77
  • Almond, Philip96
  • alter-mondialiste see anti-capitalism
  • Ambedkharite Buddhism149
  • Amitabha Buddha96
  • anti-capitalism8–9, 17–18, 162, 173, 177–82
  • apophatic mysticism38
  • Asian traditions18, 25, 26, 27, 39–41, 42, 43, 55–6, 86, 87–122, 132–3
  • Augustine, Saint38, 66
  • Barefoot Doctor see Russell, Stephen
  • Barthes, Roland140
  • Batchelor, Stephen150
  • Baumann, Zygmunt44
  • Beaudoin, Thomas18–19
  • Beck, Clive48
  • Behr, E. Thomas146
  • Bell, Daniel144
  • Bellah, Robert11, 55
  • Benjamin, Walter16
  • Benn, Tony23
  • Besant, Annie41
  • Bhagavad Gita130
  • bhakti (Hindu devotionalism)18
  • Blair, Tony166
  • Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna40–1
  • BMW154
  • Bobbitt, Philip12
  • Bocock, Robert181
  • Bodhisattva: Mahayana Buddhist ideal of96, 102–3, 109–11, 120, 156
  • Body Shop, The159
  • Bohr, Niels151
  • Borg, The181
  • Bourdieu, Pierre10
  • Boyle, David52, 123
  • Branson, Richard142, 149
  • Brazier, David101–2
  • Bridle, Susan151–2
  • Brimlow, Robert173
  • Br...

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