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Religious Commodifications in Asia

Marketing Gods
Published by: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415437387
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 265
Book Summary
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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Introduction: Asia's Commodified Sacred Canopies
Pattana Kitiarsa
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Asia and the Global Economies of Charisma
Robert P. Weller
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New Spiritualities, the Media and Global Religion: Da Vinci Code and the Passion of Christ
Bryan S. Turner
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Commodifying Blessings: Celebrating the Double-Yang Festival in Penang, Malaysia and Wudang Mountain, China
Jean DeBernardi
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Kuan To: The Vegetarian Festival in a Peripheral Southern Thai Shrine
Erik Cohen
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Materializing Merit: The Symbolic Economy of Religious Monuments and Tourist-Pilgrimage in Contemporary Thailand
Marc Askew
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Buddha Phanit: Thailand's Prosperity Religion and Its Commodifying Tactics
Pattana Kitiarsa
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Spirits of Consumption and the Capitalist Ethic in Vietnam
Oscar Salemink
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Merchandizing' Hinduism: Commodities, Markets and Possibilities for Enchantment
Vineeta Sinha
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Mcdonaldization and the Megachurches: A Case Study of City Harvest Church, Singapore
Joy Tong Kooi Chin
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