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Sophia Rose Arjana - Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi

Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Av Sophia Rose Arjana

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How Eastern religions are commodified in the modern world, and why it matters‘An expansive book, covering the intersection of mysticism and capitalism… illuminating.’ Politics, Religion & IdeologyFrom jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions – especially those of the East – are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as ‘New Age’ or ‘spiritual’, they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the ‘mystical’ and ‘exotic’ East promising a path to enlightenment and inner peace.In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi, Sophia Rose Arjana examines the appropriation and sale of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam in the West today, the role of mysticism and Orientalism in the religious marketplace, and how the commodification of religion impacts people’s lives.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-08-06
  • Mått: 146 x 225 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 366 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: Oneworld Publications
  • ISBN: 9781786077714
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Sophia Rose Arjana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University. Her previous books include Pilgrimage in Islam, also published by Oneworld, and Muslims in the Western Imagination, which was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year. She lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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‘Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi highlights the hidden costs of what would appear to be positive stereotypes about Eastern religiosity. In doing so, Arjana interrogates cultural colonialism, i.e. the borrowing of other people’s cultures and religions without giving credit to actual persons and institutions… With its comprehensive theoretically informed approach and exciting case studies, I would especially recommend this book for use in undergraduate classes.’

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