François Gauthier

Religion in Consumer Society (eBook, PDF)

Brands, Consumers and Markets
Redaktion: Martikainen, Tuomas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book explores religion as both shaped by consumer culture and as shaping consumer culture. Following an introduction which critically analyses studies on consumer culture and integrates scholarship in the sociology of religion, this book explores religion, neoliberalism and consumer society. Claiming that we have entered a new phase that implies more than the recasting of state-religion relations, the authors examine how religious changes are historically anchored in modernity but affected by the commoditization, mediatization, neoliberalization and globalization of society and social life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317067573
• Artikelnr.: 44876080

Autorenporträt

François Gauthier is Professor of Religious Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, and a specialist of religious formations in 'ultra modernity'. He has previous experience researching and writing on the rapports between religion, politics and economics in modern and contemporary society as well as on religion theory. He has experience editing volumes on these topics in both English and French, in reputed journals as well as in book form. His research interests are in the dynamics of religion with respect to the consumer ethos, electronic media and neoliberal policy. He edits the 'Religion, ethics and symbolism' section of the on-line Revue du MAUSS permanente (www.journaldumauss.net) and is part of the editing committee of the influential French social science journal Revue du MAUSS semestrielle. He has published widely in journals and books in both English and French, and is currently writing a book entitled Le mythe de l'autonomie. Religion, politique et économique en modernité (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer). Tuomas Martikainen is a Docent and University Researcher of Comparative Religion in the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is also member of executive general management team of the Post-Secular Culture and a Changing Religious Landscape in Finland Centre of Excellence in Ã...bo Akademi University, and a specialist of contemporary religious and ethnic diversity in Finland. He has previous experience researching and writing on religion and society and editing volumes on religion and immigration, including the textbooks and article compilations. Martikainen's research interest is in neoliberalism and new forms of minority governance in western societies, and he is currently editing Muslims at the Margins: Reflections on Post-1990 Immigration to Finland. He has also edited six books in the Finnish language and has published widely in English.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface, François Gauthier and Tuomas Martikainen; Introduction:
consumerism as the ethos of consumer society, François Gauthier, Linda
Woodhead and Tuomas Martikainen; Part I Changing World Religions: Religion,
individualisation and consumerism: constructions of religiosity in 'liquid'
and 'reflexive' modernity, Simon Speck; From standardised offer to consumer
adaptation: challenges to the Church of Sweden's identity, Per Pettersson;
Packaging religious experience, selling modular religion: explaining the
emergence and expansion of megachurches, Stephen Ellingson; The paradoxes
of new monasticism in the consumer society, Stefania Palmisano; 'Find your
inner God and breathe': Buddhism, pop culture, and contemporary
metamorphoses in American Judaism, Mira Niculescu; Shopping for a Church?
Choice and commitment in religious behaviour, Francesca E.S. Montemaggi.
Part II Commoditised Spiritualities: Entangled modernity and commodified
religion: alternative spirituality and the 'new middle class', Andrew
Dawson; The enchantments of consumer capitalism: beyond belief at the
Burning Man festival, François Gauthier; Buddha for sale! The
commoditisation of Tibetan Buddhism in Scotland, John S. McKenzie; Mutual
interests? Neoliberalism and New Age during the 1980s, Lars Ahlin; Healing
or dealing? Neospiritual therapies and coaching as individual meaning and
social discipline in late modern Swedish society, Anne-Christine Hornborg;
Valuing spirituality: commodification, consumption and community in
Glastonbury, Marion Bowman; Bibliography; Index.