Selling Spirituality
eBook - ePub

Selling Spirituality

The Silent Takeover of Religion

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Selling Spirituality

The Silent Takeover of Religion

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2004
eBook ISBN
9781134415977
Edition
1
Subtopic
Religion

Index

  • Alcoholics Anonymous42
  • Allport, Gordon41, 74โ€“5, 77
  • Almond, Philip96
  • alter-mondialiste see anti-capitalism
  • Ambedkharite Buddhism149
  • Amitabha Buddha96
  • anti-capitalism8โ€“9, 17โ€“18, 162, 173, 177โ€“82
  • apophatic mysticism38
  • Asian traditions18, 25, 26, 27, 39โ€“41, 42, 43, 55โ€“6, 86, 87โ€“122, 132โ€“3
  • Augustine, Saint38, 66
  • Barefoot Doctor see Russell, Stephen
  • Barthes, Roland140
  • Batchelor, Stephen150
  • Baumann, Zygmunt44
  • Beaudoin, Thomas18โ€“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 Petrovna40โ€“1
  • BMW154
  • Bobbitt, Philip12
  • Bocock, Robert181
  • Bodhisattva: Mahayana Buddhist ideal of96, 102โ€“3, 109โ€“11, 120, 156
  • Body Shop, The159
  • Bohr, Niels151
  • Borg, The181
  • Bourdieu, Pierre10
  • Boyle, David52, 123
  • Branson, Richard142, 149
  • Brazier, David101โ€“2
  • Bridle, Susan151โ€“2
  • Brimlow, Robert173
  • Br...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Spirituality and the Rebranding of Religion
  8. A Brief History of Spirituality
  9. Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality
  10. Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Wisdom Traditions
  11. Selling the Soul
  12. Conclusion: Spirituality and Resistance: Challenging the corporate takeover
  13. References
  14. Index