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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461952403321

Titolo

Consumption and spirituality / / edited by Diego Rinallo, Linda Scott, and Pauline MacIaran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-64348-0

0-203-10623-7

1-136-25706-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Routledge interpretive marketing research ; ; 16

Altri autori (Persone)

MaclaranPauline

RinalloDiego <1973->

ScottLinda M

Disciplina

201/.73

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Religious aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Marketers' sacralisation of the mundane -- pt. II. Consumers' search for spiritual meanings in consumption of the mundane -- pt. III. The commodification of the spiritual -- pt. IV. The consumption of spiritual goods -- pt. V. Issues of method and representation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book sheds light on the consumption of spiritual products, services, experiences, and places through state-of-the-art studies by leading and emerging scholars in interpretive consumer research, marketing, sociology, anthropology, cultural, and religious studies. The collection brings together fresh views and scholarship on a cultural tension that is at the centre of the lives of countless individuals living in postmodern societies: the relationship between the material and the spiritual, the sacred and the profane. The book examines how a variety of agents - religious ins