dc.contributor.author | Varul, M.Z. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-29T13:16:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-04-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Using Protestantism and Islam as examples, the intricate relation between consumerism and religion is examined. Beyond the opposition of religious 'heroic' anti-consumerism and secular 'romantic' consumerism, it will be argued, there is mutual accommodation and even convergence. On the one hand consumerism challenges religion by taking over some genuinely religious functions; on the other hand it exacerbates and accelerates a religious dynamics of probation and, thereby, invites religion to a specifically consumerist revival. The condition for such a revival, however, is that friend/enemy distinctions based on religion are transformed into a variant of the decidedly unheroic 'war of shopping'. Religious commitment is assimilated to consumer preferences, and becomes reversible. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 237 - 255 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09596410801924046 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8563 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis | en_GB |
dc.title | After Heroism: Religion vs. Consumerism - Preliminaries for an Investigation of Protestantism and Islam under Consumer Culture | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-04-29T13:16:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0959-6410 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations | en_GB |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-01-04T19:00:48Z | |