Capitalizing Religion
- Talk of 'spirituality' and 'individual religion' is proliferating both in popular discourse and scholarly works
- Increasingly people claim to be 'spiritual but not religious
- ' or to prefer 'individual religion' to 'organized religion
- ' Scholars have fordecades noted the phenomenon primarily within the middle class of individuals picking and choosing elements from among various religious traditions
- Forming their own religion or spirituality for themselves
- While the topics of 'spirituality' and 'individual religion' are regularly treated as self-evident by the media and even some scholars of religion
- Capitalizing Religion provides one of the first critical analyses of the phenomenon
- Arguing that these recent forms of spirituality are in many cases linked to capitalist ideology and consumer practices
- Examining cases such as Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now
- And Karen Berg's God Wears Lipstick
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