Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi
Download or Read eBook Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi PDF written by Sophia Rose Arjana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Sophia Rose Arjana |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 153 |
| Release | : 2020-08-04 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781786077721 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1786077728 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi by : Sophia Rose Arjana
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.
