Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion

by Richard King, Jeremy Carrette, Jeremy R. Carrette, et al.

Book Overview

Selling Spirituality shows how spirituality today functions as a powerful commodity in the global marketplace, promising to soothe away the ills of modern life whilst functioning as a silent form of economic, cultural and political restraint.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415302099
• ISBN13: 9780415302098
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Why is religion so individualized?

Selling Spirituality has an academic tone and a Chomskian perspective, but the issues it deals with are so relevant to today's pop-spirituality. Very thought-provoking.