
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Index
- Alcoholics Anonymous42
- Allport, Gordon41, 74โ5, 77
- Almond, Philip96
- alter-mondialiste see anti-capitalism
- Ambedkharite Buddhism149
- Amitabha Buddha96
- anti-capitalism8โ9, 17โ18, 162, 173, 177โ82
- apophatic mysticism38
- Asian traditions18, 25, 26, 27, 39โ41, 42, 43, 55โ6, 86, 87โ122, 132โ3
- Augustine, Saint38, 66
- Barefoot Doctor see Russell, Stephen
- Barthes, Roland140
- Batchelor, Stephen150
- Baumann, Zygmunt44
- Beaudoin, Thomas18โ19
- 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 Petrovna40โ1
- BMW154
- Bobbitt, Philip12
- Bocock, Robert181
- Bodhisattva: Mahayana Buddhist ideal of96, 102โ3, 109โ11, 120, 156
- Body Shop, The159
- Bohr, Niels151
- Borg, The181
- Bourdieu, Pierre10
- Boyle, David52, 123
- Branson, Richard142, 149
- Brazier, David101โ2
- Bridle, Susan151โ2
- Brimlow, Robert173
- Br...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Spirituality and the Rebranding of Religion
- A Brief History of Spirituality
- Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality
- Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Wisdom Traditions
- Selling the Soul
- Conclusion: Spirituality and Resistance: Challenging the corporate takeover
- References
- Index