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Selling Spirituality

The Silent Takeover of Religion
By Jeremy Carrette and Richard King
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Selling Spirituality critically examines how modern spirituality—from Feng Shui to yoga retreats—has transformed into a lucrative global market commodity. Jeremy Carrette and Richard King argue that this trend commodifies spiritual practices, limits genuine self-expression, and perpetuates orthodox political and economic systems. The book exposes the corporatisation of spirituality and highlights ways it can be reclaimed as a form of resistance against capitalist exploitation.
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This book is suited for readers interested in religion, spirituality, cultural studies, and critiques of capitalism, including academics, students, and thoughtful general readers seeking insight into the commodification of spiritual practices in the modern world.

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From feng shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy to yoga, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living, and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp attack on this fallacy.

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From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism.

Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace — a cultural addiction that reflects orthodox politics, curbs self-expression, and colonises Eastern beliefs.

Exposing how spirituality has today come to embody the privatisation of religion in the modern West, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King reveal the people and brands who profit from this corporate hijack, and explore how spirituality can be reclaimed as a means of resistance to capitalism and its deceptions.

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New Statesman praises the book for recognising the social responsibility dimension within business ethics and emphasises the increasing importance of taking religion seriously in the public sphere. The British Association for the Study of Religions calls it a provocative work, while Zadok commends its careful scholarship. The Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion notes that the book breaks new ground and encourages further research on contemporary religion. It is described as clearly written, passionate, and polemical, sure to spark debate.

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ISBN: 9780415302081

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 September 2004

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Line drawings, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 362g

Pages: 208

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Jeremy Carrette Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Richard King

About the Author

Jeremy Carrette teaches Religious Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He is author of Foucault and Religion (Routledge, 2000) and editor of Michel Foucault and Religious Experience (2003), and has also co-edited the Routledge Centenary Edition of William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience (2002). Richard King is a Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University. He is author of Orientalism and Religion (Routledge ,1999), Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought (1999) and Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism (1995).

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