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Strange Rites - New Religions for a Godless World (Hardcover)
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Strange Rites - New Religions for a Godless World (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R560
Discovery Miles 5 600
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In Strange Rites, Tara Isabella Burton takes a tour through
contemporary American religiosity. As the once dominant totems of
civic connection and civil discourse--traditional
churches--continue to sink into obsolescence, people are looking
elsewhere for the intensity and unity that religion once provided.
We're making our own personal faiths - theistic or not - mixing and
matching our spiritual, ritualistic, personal, and political
practices in order to create our own bespoke religious selves.
We're not just building new religions in 2019, we're buying them,
from Gwyneth Paltrow's gospel of Goop, to the brilliantly cultish
SoulCycle, to those who believe in their special destiny on Mars.
In so doing, we're carrying on a longstanding American tradition of
religious eclecticism, DIY-innovation and "unchurched" piety (and
highly effective capitalism). Our era is not the dawn of American
secularism, but rather a brand-bolstered resurgence of American
pluralism, revved into overdrive by commerce and personalized
algorithms, all to the tune of "Hallellujah"--America's most
popular and spectacularly misunderstood wedding song.
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