Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi Luisterboek Tooltip Luisterboeken beluister je met de bol.com Kobo app. Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

From jewelry to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditionsΓÇöespecially those of the EastΓÇöare being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as ΓÇ£new ageΓÇ¥ or ΓÇ£spiritual,ΓÇ¥ they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the ΓÇ£mysticalΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£exoticΓÇ¥ 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 peopleΓÇÖs lives.