This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the
market-religion convergences in Asia.
Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe,
Australia and North America, it discusses multiple issues regarding
religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia's
diverse religious traditions. Covering key issues in the
anthropology and sociology of contemporary Asian religion, it draws
theoretical implications for the study of religions in the light of
the shift of religious institutions from traditional religious
beliefs to material prosperity. The fact that religions compete
with each other in a 'market of faiths' is also at the core of the
analysis. The contributions show how ordinary people and religious
institutions in Asia adjusted to, and negotiated with, the
penetrative forces of a global market economy into the region's
changing religio-cultural landscapes.
An excellent contribution to the growing demands of
ethnographically and theoretically updated interpretations of Asian
religions, Religious Commodifications in Asia will be of interest
to scholars of Asian religion and new religious movements.
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