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Consumption and spirituality / edited by Diego Rinallo, Linda Scott, and Pauline MacIaran.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Routledge interpretive marketing research series ; 16.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2013.Description: xiv, 280 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203106235 (ebook : PDF)
  • 9781032291970
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 201.73 RIN
Contents:
pt. 1. Marketers' sacralisation of the mundane -- pt. 2. Consumers' search for spiritual meanings in consumption of the mundane -- pt. 3. The commodification of the spiritual -- pt. 4. The consumption of spiritual goods -- pt. 5. Issues of method and representation.
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 institutions, spiritual leaders, marketers and consumers – interact and co-create spiritual meanings in a post-disenchanted society that has been defined as a ‘supermarket of the soul.’ Consumption and Spirituality examines not only religious organizations, but also brands and marketers and the way they infuse their products, services and experiences with spiritual meanings that flow freely in the circuit of culture and can be appropriated by consumers even without purchase acts. From a consumer perspective, the book investigates how spiritual beliefs, practices, and experiences are now embedded into a global consumer culture. Rather than condemning consumption, the chapters in this book highlight consumers’ agency and the creative processes through which authentic spiritual meanings are co-created from a variety of sources, local and global, and sacred and profane alike.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Marketers' sacralisation of the mundane -- pt. 2. Consumers' search for spiritual meanings in consumption of the mundane -- pt. 3. The commodification of the spiritual -- pt. 4. The consumption of spiritual goods -- pt. 5. Issues of method and representation.

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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 institutions, spiritual leaders, marketers and consumers – interact and co-create spiritual meanings in a post-disenchanted society that has been defined as a ‘supermarket of the soul.’ Consumption and Spirituality examines not only religious organizations, but also brands and marketers and the way they infuse their products, services and experiences with spiritual meanings that flow freely in the circuit of culture and can be appropriated by consumers even without purchase acts. From a consumer perspective, the book investigates how spiritual beliefs, practices, and experiences are now embedded into a global consumer culture. Rather than condemning consumption, the chapters in this book highlight consumers’ agency and the creative processes through which authentic spiritual meanings are co-created from a variety of sources, local and global, and sacred and profane alike.

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