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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462588003321

Autore

Carrette Jeremy

Titolo

Selling Spirituality [[electronic resource] ] : The Silent Takeover of Religion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

ISBN

1-134-41598-2

1-283-96173-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KingRichard

Disciplina

201.73

204

Soggetti

Capitalism

Globalization

Religious aspects

Spiritual life

Religion - General

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Selling Spirituality: The silent takeover of religion; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Spirituality and the Rebranding of Religion; One: A Brief History of Spirituality; Two: Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality; Three: Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Wisdom Traditions; Four: Selling the Soul: The business of spirituality; Conclusion: Spirituality and Resistance: Challenging the corporate takeover; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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,