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Consuming Religion

Consuming Religion

Paperback

Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion

AnthropologyGeneral ChristianityGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 022648209X
ISBN13: 9780226482095
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 12 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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