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Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786077714)
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xFrom 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.
Author: Sophia Rose Arjana
ISBN-10: 178607771X
ISBN-13: 9781786077714
Publisher: Oneworld Academic
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 1.00d
Author: Sophia Rose Arjana
ISBN-10: 178607771X
ISBN-13: 9781786077714
Publisher: Oneworld Academic
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 1.00d
By Sophia Rose Arjana
xSophia Rose Arjana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University. Her previous books include Pilgrimage in Islam, also published by Oneworld, and Muslims in the Western Imagination, which was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year. She lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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