Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture
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Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture  -     By: Vincent J. Miller

Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture

Bloomsbury Academic / 2005 / Paperback

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The most profound problem with consumerism, argues Vincent Miller, is not the consumption of consumer goods, but the ways in which it trains us to treat everything, including religion, as an object of consumption. Consuming Religion surveys almost a century of scholarly literature on consumerism, from the rise of a culture of commodities to the flowering of 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.

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Title: Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture
By: Vincent J. Miller
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 2005
Dimensions: 9.0 X 6.0 (inches)
Weight: 13 ounces
ISBN: 0826417493
ISBN-13: 9780826417497
Stock No: WW417493

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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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Vincent J. Miller is Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton, USA. His work has appeared in Horizons, U.S. Catholic Historian, and Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium. In 1996 he received the Outstanding Graduate Student Essay Award of the College Theology Society.

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