Religion, consumerism and sustainability paradise lost? / [electronic resource] :
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- 其他題名：
- Consumption and public life
- 出版： Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名： Consumption and public life
- 主題： Religion--Economic aspects. , Consumption (Economics) , Business , Religion , POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Macroeconomics. , Electronic books.
- ISBN： 9780230306134 (electronic bk.) 、 0230306136 (electronic bk.)
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CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Sustaining life: theories and representations of religion and consumerism: Consumerism as theodicy: religiious and secular meaning functions in modern society / Not exactly a selling point?: religion and reality TV / Living in a material world: religious commodification and resistance / Sustaining spiritualities in consumer cultures / Faith in ethical consumption / Islam in the globalized world: consumerism and environmental ethics in Iran / Consumerism in Slovak Catholic homes / 'Whats not spent is lost': consumption practices of Pakistani Muslims in Britain / From the parliament to the market: political consumerism and the fight for Sabbath /
- 摘要註: "This collection analyses relationships between religious and consumption practices and cultures, and their diverse responses to ecological crisis, ranging from indifference to engagement. The book includes contributions on Japan, Israel, Iran, Slovakia and Britain"--Provided by publisher.
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- 系統號： 005098748 | 機讀編目格式
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To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other binaries have been grafted, so that 'North' and the 'West' are portrayed as secular and materialistic, 'South' and 'East' either as 'tigers' pursuing western-style affluence and economic growth or locked into retrospective fundamentalisms. These characterisations are called into question in a context of diversity and global movements of peoples and goods. In this collection this complexity is addressed in an analysis of the interconnections between religious and consumption practices and cultures, and the ways in which both are responding to the ecological threat posed by continuous economic growth. International in scope, the book combines empirical and theoretical work in its attempt to interrogate the traditional opposition of spiritual and materialistic values, and to explore the interplay of religious and consuming passions in contemporary cultures. This analysis leads to a consideration of the ways in which religions and secular spiritualities can contribute to a new ecological consciousness, and to the adoption of less destructive and rapacious ways of life.