Consuming Religion

Kathryn Lofton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-48209-5 (ISBN)

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What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at bottom religious questions. Whether or not you have been inside of a cathedral, a temple, or a seminary, you live in the frame of religion. In eleven essays exploring soap and office cubicles, Britney Spears and the Kardashians, corporate culture and Goldman Sachs, Lofton shows the conceptual levers of religion in thinking about social modes of encounter, use, and longing. Wherever we see people articulate their dreams of and for the world, wherever we see those dreams organized into protocols, images, manuals, and contracts, we glimpse what the word "religion" allows us to describe and understand. With great style and analytical acumen, Lofton offers the ultimate guide to religion and consumption in our capitalizing times.

Kathryn Lofton is professor of religious studies, American studies, history and divinity at Yale University.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 228 mm
Gewicht	598 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-48209-X / 022648209X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-48209-5 / 9780226482095
Zustand	Neuware