Commodified communion : Eucharist, consumer culture, and the practice of everyday life / Antonio Eduardo Alonso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alonso, Antonio Eduardo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumer behavior--United States.

Consumer behavior.

United States.

Christianity and culture.

Lord's Supper.

Physical Description:

188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God's activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Resistance

Singing about a (Liturgical) Revolution

2. Listening for the Cry in a Consumer Culture

Salvation in the Shape of an Apple

3. The Limits of Eucharistic Resistance

Communion Commodified

4. Confession, Hope, and Justice in a Commodified World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823294121

0823294129

9780823294114

0823294110

OCLC:

1178634435

Publisher Number:

99987674209