This is the thirty-first volume in Religion and Public Life,
formerly This World, a series on religion and public affairs. This
ongoing series seeks to provide a wide-ranging forum for differing
views on religious and ethical considerations. The essays grouped
together in Culture and Consumption discuss the phenomenon of
consumption, an identifiable and pervasive feature of American
culture that distinguishes it from other national cultures. The
lead article provides an insight into the long-standing pattern of
consumption that has been progressively elevated into social policy
in America. This is a balanced analysis of the history of the
consumption cultural ethos beginning with the undermining of the
Native American Culture and ending with Wilsonian
Liberal-Internationalism and the demise of the moral authority of
organized labor. This commercialization of culture has always
competed with the funding vision of a dispassionate social order in
which custom, deferential politics, and continuation of traditional
hierarchal values would be the constitutional agenda. Another
contributor argues that the emergence of the democratic-consumer
state in America was anticipated in de Tocqueville's observation
that "in democracies nothing has brighter luster than commercea."
Other contributor essays treat issues such as the New Class and the
consumer state; technology's triumph at the expense of the social
and natural worlds; and argue against the materialist perspective
in addiction. Culture and Consumption includes the following major
contributions: "The Dialectic of Consumption: Materialism and
Social Control" by David Brown; "Religion, Social Science and the
Ironies of Parasitic Modernity" by Guy Alchon; The Dilemma of
Hypermodernity" by Mark Wegierski; "Toward an Epistemology of
Addiction" by Leonard Kaplan and Vince Rinella. Also included are
book reviews by Martha Davis and Conrad Kanagy. In a concluding
essay, Gabriel Ricci reviews Jerome Bruner's The Culture of
Education. Culture and Consumption is part of an annual survey of
religion and public life that provides relevant information and
ideas about significant issues of the day.
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