Consuming religion
What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays exploring soap and office cubicles, Britney Spears a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Class 200, new studies in religion.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) |
| Summary: | What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays exploring soap and office cubicles, Britney Spears and the Kardashians, corporate culture and Goldman Sachs, Lofton shows the conceptual levers of religion in thinking about social modes of encounter, use, and longing. Wherever we see people articulate their dreams of and for the world, wherever we see those dreams organized into protocols, images, manuals, and contracts, we glimpse what the word "religion" allows us to describe and understand. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226482125 022648212X |