Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace by Sophia Rose Arjana

Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Sophia Rose Arjana

272 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction religion sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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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 a...

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