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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, OneWorldAcademic


 
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Author: Sophia Rose Arjana
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781786077714
Publication Date: 2020


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From jewelry 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 an answer to suffering in the modern world, the 'mystical' and 'exotic' East promising a path to enlightenment and inner peace. In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi, Sophia Rose Arjana examines the appropriation and sale of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam in the West today, the role of mysticism and Orientalism in the religious marketplace, and how the commodification of religion impacts people�s lives.

Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace, Sophia Rose Arjana, OneWorldAcademic, Paperback,
320 pages, $25.00

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