CAPITALIZING RELIGION
Martin Craig
Oprawa:
TWARDA
Wydawca:
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
9781472521644
Opis produktu
Craig Martin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies St. Thomas Aquinas College USA.Written by an important critical voice in the study of religionFills gap for an uptodate critical evaluation of spirituality and individual religionSpirituality a current topic in both academic and cultural discoursesCraig Martin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies St. Thomas Aquinas College USA.Talk of spirituality and individual religion is proliferating both in popular discourse and scholarly works. Increasingly people claim to be spiritual but not religious or to prefer individual religion to organized religion. Scholars have for decades noted the phenomenon primarily within the middle class of individuals picking and choosing elements from among various religious traditions forming their own religion or spirituality for themselves. While the topics of spirituality and individual religion are regularly treated as selfevident by the media and even some scholars of religion Capitalizing Religion provides one of the first critical analyses of the phenomenon arguing that these recent forms of spirituality are in many cases linked to capitalist ideology and consumer practices. Examining cases such as Eckhart Tolles The Power of Now and Karen Bergs God Wears Lipstick Craig Martin ultimately argues that socalled individual religion is a religion of the status quo or more critically an opiate of the bourgeoisie. Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and Opiate of the Bourgeoisie is a landmark publication in critical religious studies.A critical account of spirituality or individual religion arguing that much of what is labelled as spirituality can be understood as consumerist ideology.IntroductionPart 1: Religion Capitalismand Social Theory1. Individuality is zero2. Theorizing Individual Religion3. Our Religion of the Status QuoPart 2: The Opiate of the Bourgeoisie4. Quietism: The Empires Gospel5. Consumerism: The Fashionable Hijab6. Productivity: The New Protestant Work Ethic7. Individualism: A Capital Theodicy Afterword: Things at the Disposal of SocietyBibliographyIndexIt is fair to say that Martins work is a success bringing a wonderful melange of personal philosophical and sociological wisdom to bear on the very particular form of wisdom which is popular spiritually ... Perceptive and original ... Martin provides us with an excellent text that is both engaging and scholarly.It is nearly impossible to find a study of religion in the West written in the last 40 years that has not made reference to individualism. Craig Martin asks his scholarly colleagues to stop believing the ideological fallacy of ascendant individualism in modern religious experience. Instead he turns our attentions to the embedded capitalist agenda of religious action and advocacy in the contemporary moment. After reading this book you will never again feel wholly comfortable talking about spirituality without also thinking about consumerism and its profound hold on our fictionsWymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 434 gr
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