Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi

Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 155
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ISBN-10 : 9781786077721
ISBN-13 : 1786077728
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Book Synopsis Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi by : Sophia Rose Arjana

Download or read book Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi written by Sophia Rose Arjana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions – especially those of the East – are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as ‘New Age’ or ‘spiritual’, they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the ‘mystical’ and ‘exotic’ East promising a path to enlightenment and inner peace. In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi, Sophia Rose Arjana examines the appropriation and sale of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam in the West today, the role of mysticism and Orientalism in the religious marketplace, and how the commodification of religion impacts people’s lives.


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