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Consuming Religion - Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture (Paperback)
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Consuming Religion - Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture (Paperback)
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Contemporary theology, argues Miller, is silent on what is
unquestionably one of the most important cultural issues it faces:
consumerism or "consumer culture." While there is no shortage of
expressions of concern about the corrosive effects of consumerism
from the standpoint of economic justice or environmental ethics,
there is a surprising paucity of theoretically sophisticated works
on the topic, for consumerism, argues Miller, is not just about
behavioral "excesses"; rather, it is a pervasive worldview that
affects our construction as persons-what motivates us, how we
relate to others, to culture, and to religion. Consuming Religion
surveys almost a century of scholarly literature on consumerism and
the commodification of culture and charts the ways in which
religious belief and practice have been transformed by the dominant
consumer culture of the West. It demonstrates the significance of
this seismic cultural shift for theological method, doctrine,
belief, community, and theological anthropology. Like more popular
texts, the book takes a critical stand against the deleterious
effects of consumerism. However, its analytical complexity provides
the basis for developing more sophisticated tactics for addressing
these problems.>
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