Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability: Paradise Lost? (Consumption and Public Life)
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Hardcover. This collection analyses relationships between religious and consumption practices and cultures, and their diverse responses to ecological crisis, ranging from indifference to engagement. Editor(s): Thomas, Lyn. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFCD; JFFT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382. Paradise Lost?. Series: Consumption and Public Life. 216 pages, 1 figures, 2 colour illustrations. Editor(s): Thomas, Lyn. This collection analyses relationships between religious and consumption practices and cultures, and their diverse responses to ecological crisis, ranging from indifference to engagement. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HRAM; JFCD; JFFT. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight: 382.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Consumption and Public Life
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230576674
SKU
V9780230576674
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99-15
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CLIVE BARNETT is Reader in Human Geography at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK GUY BEN-PORAT is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Administration in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel ZUZANA BÚRIKOVÁ is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia NICHOLAS BUXTON is ... Read more
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