Contents:
lesdoterkevul.ml The Silent Takeover of Religion. Carrette , Jeremy Carrette , Richard King. A Brief History of Spirituality. Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality. Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Wisdom Traditions. Amartya Sen and Jain Philosophy.
Status of Hindi in India. Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity. Daisaku Ikeda, Language and Education. Healing This Wounded Earth. The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China. Japan And Asian Modernities. Jainism and Environmental Philosophy. Being Brahmin, Being Modern.
Soul, Community and Social Change. Possession, Power and the New Age. Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan. Teaching with the Wind. Spirituality and Ethics in Management.
Readings in Indian Sociology. Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan.
A Sociology of Spirituality. The Sacred in Exile. Schooling the National Imagination. The Srimad Devi Bhagavatam. Ethics for our Times.
Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan. Being Middle-class in India. Negotiating Capability and Diaspora. Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India. 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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Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion [J. Carrette, Richard King] on linawycatuzy.gq *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. From Feng Shui to holistic. Selling Spirituality has 69 ratings and 6 reviews. Melanie said: The grumpy response to what the authors see as a problematic rainbows & unicorns (mark.
Aug 30, Melanie rated it liked it Recommended to Melanie by: Reli - American Spirituality. Identifies actual things happening in consumer-driven capitalist culture how would one step out of Western consumer culture? Doesn't focus on everyday people "doing" spirituality agency of individuals , does focus a lot on "the man behind the curtain. May 17, Caleb Roberts rated it liked it Shelves: By commodifying spirituality, neoliberalism is cutting out the religious middleman when it comes to purveying the opium of the people.
So the argument goes here.
Which was interesting, but I personally and obviously wanted more exploration of how Christianity has been been colonized and appropriated, and indeed, how it has aided and abetted its own appropriation. I also liked the conclusion where the authors propose that "what we need at this moment are new 'atheisms' that reject the God of money" , for "in a context where 'the Market' has become the new God of our times, the emergence of socially oriented forms of 'spirituality', critically engaging with the wisdom of the world's 'religious' traditions, may yet have a key role to play in providing the means for resisting unrestrained consumerism and the commodification of life itself.
Nov 08, Richard Thompson rated it really liked it Shelves: Still an interesting read. I was happy to see some of my unfavorite spiritual capitalist like Deepak Chopra singled out for particular mention.
Interlibrary loan from Royal Roads College. Jun 27, Simon rated it really liked it.
A useful book for those with a nagging doubt as to the validity of current trends for all things "spiritual". Anyone with already a sceptical outlook on this matter and of consumerist society in general will find nothing really surprising here. The main problem I had with this book is the authors constant hammering on of their point sometimes several times per page.