Peter Mundey

Sacred Consumption (eBook, ePUB)

The Religions of Christianity and Consumerism in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How does consumerism function as a quasi-religion in America, and how does the Christian faith interact with the consumerist pseudo-faith? Answering these questions is the focus of Sacred Consumption: The Religions of Christianity and Consumerism in America. Peter Mundey draws on both quantitative and qualitative data to explore how habitually consuming nonessentials is sacred in American culture and how the Christian sacred interacts with such consumption. Mundey unpacks the history of American consumerism and the creeds of consumerism. Christian creeds related to both consuming and financial giving are also discussed, illuminating the ways that Christianity can fuel, resist, and passively ignore consumerism. Mundey's emphasis throughout is to enumerate the underlying cultural ideology derived from both Christianity and consumerism that partially makes and shapes American consumers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498591621
• Artikelnr.: 67716278

Autorenporträt

Peter Mundey is assistant professor of sociology at Savannah State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Something Else" is Sacred
Chapter One: A Brief History of American Consumerism: Late 1800s-2021
Chapter Two: The Disciples, Doctrines, and Detractors of American
Consumerism
Chapter Three: Christian Economic Creeds and the Spirit of American
Consumerism & Anti-Consumerism
Chapter Four: Sacrificial Financial Giving as a Means of Partially
Resisting Consumerism
Conclusion: Shopping for Creeds: Why Ideological Shopping Carts Matter
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Author