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Consuming Religion de Kathryn Lofton

Consuming Religion: Class 200: New Studies in Religion

Autor Kathryn Lofton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 sep 2017

Autoarea Kathryn Lofton, profesor la Yale University, propune în Consuming Religion o analiză riguroasă a modului în care mecanismele religioase s-au translatat în inima culturii de consum contemporane. Găsim în această lucrare o continuare firească a cercetărilor sale anterioare, precum Oprah – The Gospel of an Icon, unde Lofton a demonstrat cum imperiile media pot funcționa ca structuri de credință. Dacă în lucrările precedente se concentra pe figuri mesianice ale televiziunii, aici extinde cadrul de investigație către ritualurile cotidiene ale capitalismului târziu.

Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a identifica 'levierele conceptuale ale religiei' în locuri aparent seculare. Structurată în unsprezece eseuri, cartea progresează de la analiza spațiului de birou și a consumului de tip „binge”, către deconstrucția celebrității — exemplificată prin sacrificiul public al lui Britney Spears — și până la examinarea corporațiilor, precum Goldman Sachs, privite ca secte moderne. Această organizare tematică permite cititorului să urmărească modul în care protocoalele, imaginile și contractele comerciale preiau funcția simbolică a sacrului.

Consuming Religion completează perspectiva oferită de Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader, adăugând o profunzime analitică specifică studiilor de caz americane și o critică mai ascuțită a neoliberalismului. În timp ce alte lucrări din domeniu, precum cele ale lui Gordon Lynch, oferă o privire de ansamblu asupra dezbaterilor teoretice, Lofton preferă o abordare aplicată, transformând fenomene pop precum clanul Kardashian în subiecte de exegeză religioasă. Tonul este unul academic, dar marcat de o acuitate stilistică ce transformă lectura într-o experiență intelectuală densă, ancorată în realitățile imediate ale pieței globale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226482095
ISBN-10: 022648209X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 14 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Class 200: New Studies in Religion

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cercetătorii și studenții din domeniul sociologiei și al studiilor religioase care doresc să înțeleagă cum consumul a devenit noul ritual social. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care brandurile și celebritățile ne modelează dorințele și valorile, oferind instrumente teoretice pentru a descifra 'religia' ascunsă în cultura corporatistă și în divertismentul de masă.

Despre autor

Kathryn Lofton este profesor de studii americane și religioase la Yale University (Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor). Cercetările sale se concentrează pe istoria culturală a religiei în Statele Unite și pe intersecția dintre credință și capitalism. Este cunoscută pentru capacitatea de a analiza fenomenele de masă prin prisma teoriilor religioase, lucrarea sa de referință fiind Oprah – The Gospel of an Icon. Prin volumele sale, Lofton a devenit o voce influentă în mediul academic, redefinind modul în care înțelegem secularismul și practicile de consum moderne ca forme de manifestare spirituală și socială.

Descriere scurtă

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.
With great style and analytical acumen, Lofton offers the ultimate guide to religion and consumption in our capitalizing times.

Notă biografică

Kathryn Lofton is professor of religious studies, American studies, history and divinity at Yale University.
 

Cuprins

Preface
Introduction

Practicing Commodity

1 Binge Religion: Social Life in Extremity
2 The Spirit in the Cubicle: A Religious History of the American Office

Revising Ritual

3 Ritualism Revived: From Scientia Ritus to Consumer Rites
4 Purifying America: Rites of Salvation in the Soap Campaign

Imagining Celebrity

5 Sacrificing Britney: Celebrity and Religion in America
6 The Celebrification of Religion in the Age of Infotainment

Valuing Family

7 Religion and the Authority in American Parenting
8 Kardashian Nation: Work in America’s Klan

Rethinking Corporate Freedom

9 Corporation as Sect
10 On the Origins of Corporate Culture
11 Do Not Tamper with the Clues: Notes on Goldman Sachs

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Recenzii

"In sum Consuming Religion is an elegant, critical, wide-ranging and thought-provoking account of religion and spirituality in America today."

"Lofton’s Consuming Religion takes us through the Kardashians, cubicle design, and Goldman Sachs, among other phenomena, to reveal the relationship of religion and popular culture. At its best, this book feels like an exciting revelation about who and what we should be addressing in religious studies."

“Not only are Lofton's definitions of religion alone worth the price of admission to this text, but they should also remind us of previous studies that chose to foreground religion's less-than-liberative characteristics within the field of American religion. . . . Its strength as an edited collection manifests most strongly through its method of analysis across scale and academic subject matter. . . We may all be consuming this text for the foreseeable future in order to understand better its claims, but we are also, at the same time, being consumed by it and its various methodological seductions.”

The separation of her research into examinations of niches within neo-liberal and late capitalist practices diffuses as well as sharpens her analytical and erudite examination of corporate cubicles, the Kardashians, soap advertising, parenting, ritualism debates in the 19th century and Britney Spears, to name but a few of her diverse and detailed examples packaged as Consuming Religion. . . seeing her media coverage through the filters of Georges Bataille, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sigmund Freud and René Girard deepens relevance.”

“Lofton’s intellectually dizzying and absolutely brilliant book calls our attention to the fundamentals of our consuming religion. . .[a] field-defining study. . . . In the age of selfie sticks, Lofton thus brings the study of religion up close and personal with its own ‘othered’ and refracted reflection in the mirror.”

“Lofton revitalizes academic definitions of religion, putting them to work in the midst of the limitations and possibilities of organizing life, attending to how people configure their lives as religious, but also amplifying the recurring patterns and processes of organization that have been examined in the academic study of religion as elementary forms of religious life.”

"With big data and mass customization changing marketing strategies and transforming patterns of consumption at warp speed, Consuming Religion is a timely exploration of a world in which reality is branded. Unexpected connections and juxtapositions reveal religion in unexpected places and practices. To follow Kathryn Lofton’s romp through today’s mediascape is to discover the superficiality of pop culture to be surprisingly profound."

"Kathryn Lofton’s Consuming Religion is a modern classic. It is the sequel to Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life and is destined to be as enduring. Moving beyond stale debates on secularism, pressing us to see religion in new forms of modernity, Lofton takes us on a lively tour of religion in the everyday practices and institutions of consumer society. In the end, this tour de force leaves us with both a new respect for, and critique of, religion as consumerism and consumerism as religion."

“There is no more perspicacious observer of the relentless religious innovation of contemporary consumer culture than Kathryn Lofton. With restless brilliance and erudition, she takes us on a chilling tour of the American marketplace figured as religion. Having revealed the sacrificial violence at the heart of our common life, Lofton urges us to commit ourselves to making religion ‘do something different’—to ‘freedom from the primal horde.’”

“In a critical voice recognizably hers and only hers, Lofton brilliantly probes the most cunning junctures of contemporary neoliberal religion. Ranging over corporate cubicles; the advertising industry; finance; the dark arts of the creation, promotion, and destruction of celebrity; and much, much more, Lofton shows how at the deepest levels of imagination, desire, and discipline the modern histories of neoliberalism and religion—and the contemporary practices of both—have been and remain utterly entwined. Consuming Religion is a learned, incisive, often revelatory work; it is also deeply humane and compassionate. With this book, Lofton not only emerges clearly as the contemporary study of religion’s Walter Benjamin; she also helps restore the social critical voice of religious studies. Such a project was never more urgent than it is today.”

"Kathryn Lofton breaks wide the definition of religion, and in so doing, redefines the interplay between the sacred and the so-called secular—whether it's pop icons or parenting, the Kardashians or corporate culture. We have been waiting for a book that elevates the discourse about how marketing and faith collide and co-mingle. Consuming Religion is that book."

"This book explores the 'hermeneutic territory' that opens up when scholars accept the 'commonalities' of consumer popular culture and traditional religions (xi). It is, ultimately, not a book about consumer culture’s effects on traditional religions, but about how corporate discourse, consumer marketing, and media celebrity themselves constitute forms of sociality that demand analysis by scholars of religion."

"Lofton's Consuming Religion is a refreshing and thought-provoking collection of essays in which she aims to illuminate the relationship with modern consumption culture. Breaking down this extensive endeavor into remarkable sub-themes, Lofton explores the category of religion as 'a category of law and learning, as a description of social movements, and as a summary of identity or claim of belief,' and the ways in which consumer culture illuminates what individuals value."