ISBN:
0415437385
,
9780415437387
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 265 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy v.3
Parallel Title:
Print version Religious Commodifications in Asia : Marketing Gods
DDC:
306.6095
Keywords:
Religion
;
Asia Religion
Abstract:
Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, this volume discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia's diverse religious traditions
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Asia's commodified sacred canopies; Part I: A COMMODITY APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF ASIAN RELIGIONS; 1 ASIA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIES OF CHARISMA; 2 NEW SPIRITUALITIES, THE MEDIA AND GLOBAL RELIGION; Part II: MODES AND TECHNIQUES OF THE SYMBOLIC ECONOMIES; 3 COMMODIFYING BLESSINGS: Celebrating the double-yang festival in Penang, Malaysia and Wudang mountain, China; 4 KUAN TO: The vegetarian festival in a peripheral southern Thai shrine
Description / Table of Contents:
5 MATERIALIZING MERIT: The symbolic economy of religious monuments and tourist-pilgrimage in contemporary Thailand6 BUDDHA PHANIT: Thailand's prosperity religion and its commodifying tactics; Part III: THE MULTIPLE EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS COMMODIFICATIONS; 7 SPIRITS OF CONSUMPTION AND THE CAPITALIST ETHIC IN VIETNAM; 8 'MERCHANDIZING' HINDUISM: Commodities, markets and possibilities for enchantment; 9 MCDONALDIZATION AND THE MEGACHURCHES: A case study of City Harvest Church, Singapore; 10 ISLAM AS A SYMBOLIC COMMODITY: Transmitting and consuming Islam through public sermons in Indonesia
Description / Table of Contents:
11 COMMODIFICATION OF RELIGION AND THE 'RELIGIFICATION' OF COMMODITIES: Youth culture and religious identityBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
