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Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Sophia Rose Arjana
4.9/5 (29972 ratings)
Description:From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions – especially those of the East – are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as ‘New Age’ or ‘spiritual’, they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the ‘mystical’ and ‘exotic’ East promising a path to enlightenment and inner peace.In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi , Sophia Rose Arjana examines the appropriation and sale of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam in the West today, the role of mysticism and Orientalism in the religious marketplace, and how the commodification of religion impacts people’s lives.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace. To get started finding Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
322
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Oneworld Academic
Release
2020
ISBN
1786077728

Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Sophia Rose Arjana
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions – especially those of the East – are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as ‘New Age’ or ‘spiritual’, they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the ‘mystical’ and ‘exotic’ East promising a path to enlightenment and inner peace.In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi , Sophia Rose Arjana examines the appropriation and sale of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam in the West today, the role of mysticism and Orientalism in the religious marketplace, and how the commodification of religion impacts people’s lives.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace. To get started finding Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
322
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Oneworld Academic
Release
2020
ISBN
1786077728
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