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By Pattana Kitiarsa

ISBN-10: 0415437385

ISBN-13: 9780415437387

This booklet addresses the starting to be educational matters of the market-religion convergences in Asia.

Bringing jointly a gaggle of prime students from Asia, Europe, Australia and North the United States, it discusses a number of concerns relating to non secular commodifications and their effects throughout Asia’s assorted non secular traditions. protecting key matters within the anthropology and sociology of latest Asian faith, it attracts theoretical implications for the research of religions within the gentle of the shift of non secular associations from conventional spiritual ideals to fabric prosperity. the truth that religions compete with one another in a ‘market of faiths’ can also be on the center of the research. The contributions convey how usual humans and spiritual associations in Asia adjusted to, and negotiated with, the penetrative forces of an international marketplace economic climate into the region’s altering religio-cultural landscapes.

An very good contribution to the transforming into calls for of ethnographically and theoretically up to date interpretations of Asian religions, Religious Commodifications in Asia will be of curiosity to students of Asian faith and new non secular movements.

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Of course, Gibson sought the approval of religious leaders before shooting and releasing his film, but he cannot control the unintended consequences of the film once it is in circulation. While my argument is that popular religion corrodes the formal authority of official religious institutions by simply by-passing them, The Passion belongs to a traditional and well established genre of popular representations of Christ in postcards, domestic paintings and films. In this sense there may be nothing in particular ‘new’ about popular religion.

33 Downloaded by [INFLIBNET Centre] at 06:16 25 September 2012 BRYA N S . T U R N E R What does the new paradigm claim to be? First, whereas traditional European social theory had emphasized the centrality of secularization to modernization, the new paradigm takes note of the resilience of religion, not only in the United States but globally. e. Christianity) had survived in America at the cost of its content. David Martin’s work on secularization provided a more complex picture, but he too was struck by the contrast between America and Europe in his A General Theory of Secularization (1978).

What happens, in other words, when video becomes a primary carrier of charisma? What can hold such a religion together, and how do the structures and flows of religious world-systems relate to economic world-systems? We are still a long way from having good answers to these questions, but at least it should be possible to suggest a few likely avenues to explore. To begin with, circulation of charisma can occur through objects, which is much easier than circulating the charismatic people. Such objects range from the rare and powerful (bits of saintly bones or clothes, remnants of enlightened Buddhist clergy, and the like) to mass-produced trinkets from souvenir stands near important temples.

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