Consuming Religion
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Kathryn Lofton
简介
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 questions for the study 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.
目录
Preface
Introduction
Practicing Commodity
1 Binge Religion: Social Life in Extremity
2 The Spirit in the Cubicle: A Religious History of the American Office
Revising Ritual
3 Ritualism Revived: From Scientia Ritus to Consumer Rites
4 Purifying America: Rites of Salvation in the Soap Campaign
Imagining Celebrity
5 Sacrificing Britney: Celebrity and Religion in America
6 The Celebrification of Religion in the Age of Infotainment
Valuing Family
7 Religion and the Authority in American Parenting
8 Kardashian Nation: Work in America’s Klan
Rethinking Corporate Freedom
9 Corporation as Sect
10 On the Origins of Corporate Culture
11 Do Not Tamper with the Clues: Notes on Goldman Sachs
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index