Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture - Hardcover

Miller, Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826415318 ISBN 13: 9780826415318

Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2003

Synopsis

All is grist for Miller's mill, which is to demonstrate the significance of this seismic cultural shift for theological method, doctrine, belief, community, and theological anthropology. "Consuming Religion" takes a critical stand against the deleterious effects of consumerism, but it also strives to consider certain positive aspects of the transformation of religious faith and practice that have accompanied the rise of consumer culture, aspects such as the explosive growth of popular agency.

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Review:

"There is no dearth of jeremiads against the negative consequences of that most durable (because most protean) of modernity's accomplishments: the consumer society. Few of them, however, are tenacious and nuanced enough to grasp what is at stake for a Christian faith and theology that would live faithfully and creatively in such a society. Consuming Religion is, ranging surely and discerningly over the variegated landscape of modern and postmodern critical theory. Its publication signals the addition of a welcome and important voice to a new generation of theologians who are continuing to press the agenda of political and liberation theology in the new millennium."

About the Author:

Vincent J. Miller is Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton, USA. His work has appeared in Horizons, U.S. Catholic Historian, and Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium. In 1996 he received the Outstanding Graduate Student Essay Award of the College Theology Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0826415318
• ISBN 13: 9780826415318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262