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Consumption and spirituality / edited by Diego Rinallo, Linda Scott, and Pauline MacIaran.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge interpretive marketing research series ; 16.
- Routledge interpretive marketing research ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--Religious aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book sheds light on the consumption of spiritual products, services, experiences, and places through state-of-the-art studies by leading and emerging scholars in interpretive consumer research, marketing, sociology, anthropology, cultural, and religious studies. The collection brings together fresh views and scholarship on a cultural tension that is at the centre of the lives of countless individuals living in postmodern societies: the relationship between the material and the spiritual, the sacred and the profane. The book examines how a variety of agents - religious ins
- Contents:
- pt. I. Marketers' sacralisation of the mundane
- pt. II. Consumers' search for spiritual meanings in consumption of the mundane
- pt. III. The commodification of the spiritual
- pt. IV. The consumption of spiritual goods
- pt. V. Issues of method and representation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-25705-5
- 1-283-64348-0
- 0-203-10623-7
- 1-136-25706-3
- 9780203106235
- OCLC:
- 813005315
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