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Book Synopsis Shopping for Faith by : Richard Cimino
Download or read book Shopping for Faith written by Richard Cimino and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shopping for Faith is as good as it gets in assessing the U.S. religion scene at millennium's end. Cimino and Lattin present a picture of multiple trends headed in often contradictory directions. —Robert Ellwood, emeritus professor of religion, University of Southern California American religion flourishes in a consumer culture, and presents us with a bewildering array of choices as we navigate the shopping mall of faith. The authors identify dozens of trends which will shape American religion in the next century and bring together the latest research and intimate portraits of Americans describing their beliefs, their religious heritage, and their spiritual search. With warmth and style the authors document how consumerism shapes religious practice -- from conservative evangelical worship to the most esoteric New Age workshop.
Book Synopsis Shopping for faith : American religion in the new millennium by : Richard P. ; Lattin Cimino (Don)
Download or read book Shopping for faith : American religion in the new millennium written by Richard P. ; Lattin Cimino (Don) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shopping for God by : James B. Twitchell
Download or read book Shopping for God written by James B. Twitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago religion was a personal matter that was seldom discussed in public. No longer. Today religion is everywhere, from books to movies to television to the internet-to say nothing about politics. Now religion is marketed and advertised like any other product or service. How did this happen? And what does it mean for religion and for our culture? Just as we shop for goods and services, we shop for church. A couple of generations ago Americans remained in the faith they were born into. Today, many Americans change their denomination or religion, sometimes several times. Churches that know how to appeal to those shopping for God are thriving. Think megachurches. Churches that don't know how to do this or don't bother are fading away. Think mainline Protestant churches. Religion is now celebrated and shown off like a fashion accessory. We can wear our religious affiliation like a designer logo. But, says James Twitchell, this isn't because Americans are undergoing another Great Awakening; rather, it's a sign that religion providers-that is, churches-have learned how to market themselves. There is more competition among churches than ever in our history. Filling the pew is an exercise in salesmanship, and as with any marketing campaign, it requires establishing a brand identity. Successful pastors ("pastorpreneurs," Twitchell calls them) know how to speak the language of Madison Avenue as well as the language of the Bible. In this witty, engaging book, Twitchell describes his own experiences trying out different churches to discover who knows how to "do church" well. He takes readers into the land of karaoke Christianity, where old-style contemplative sedate religion has been transformed into a public, interactive event with giant-screen televisions, generic iconography (when there is any at all), and ample parking. Rarely has America's religious culture been examined so perceptively and so entertainingly. Shopping for God does for religion what Fast Food Nation has done for food.
Book Synopsis Shopping for Meaningful Lives by : Bruce P. Rittenhouse
Download or read book Shopping for Meaningful Lives written by Bruce P. Rittenhouse and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumerism is a problem. It deforms individual character, our sense of obligation to one another, and our concern for future generations and the environment. Even in the aftermath of the worst economic downturn in seventy years, it remains a defining feature of Western cultures. But, beyond this assessment, neither Christian theologians and ethicists nor secular economists and sociologists have understood what drives consumerism or what can be done to counteract it. This is the problem that Bruce P. Rittenhouse solves in Shopping for Meaningful Lives. Dr. Rittenhouse analyzes economic, sociological, and psychological evidence to prove that consumers behave differently than the current theories predict. Dr. Rittenhouse shows that consumerism functions as a religion. It provides a means of assurance that an individual life is meaningful. Because we need this assurance to live out our everyday lives, consumerism takes precedence over whatever other values a person professes--unless a person can adopt a different way to secure the meaning of his or her life. This interpretation explains how consumers actually behave. From the perspective of Christian theology, consumerism is a wrong answer to a problem of human existence that should be answered by faith in Christ.
Book Synopsis What If God Wrote Your Shopping List? by : Jay Payleitner
Download or read book What If God Wrote Your Shopping List? written by Jay Payleitner and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Do You Spend Your Time and Money? Do you think there’s no connection between your choices as a consumer and your priorities in life? Think again. The everyday items you buy—or choose not to buy—say A LOT about who you are as a person and what’s important to you. Consider bestselling author Jay Payleitner’s creative ideas for purposeful purchases, such as… A shower curtain of the earth to remind you of God’s love for the world Comfort food that evokes memories and connects generations The ubiquitous smartphone and whether you need the latest and greatest model Encounter these and 49 other finds on your way to realizing your shopping list from God isn’t about acquiring more material goods, but about living a good life filled with faith and wisdom.
Book Synopsis Shopping for Jesus by : Dominic Janes
Download or read book Shopping for Jesus written by Dominic Janes and published by New Academia Publishing/ The Spring. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief, and the processes by which it is sold and consumed. The contributors have all been researching the way in which religion uses branding, advertising, and marketing to understand missionary and revival activities.
Download or read book Shopping written by Michelle A. Gonzalez and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be more mundane or less religious than shopping? Yet shopping asks us to choose our values and weigh the good in everyday terms. It also brings us instantly in contact with the myriad relationships and labor of people all over the world who have grown, harvested, or crafted the food, clothes, and other items with which we sustain and adorn our lives. Michelle Gonzalez, whose work on spirituality has lifted up the life practices of Latina women, explores the rich material on economic activity and relationships in the Christian tradition and the larger pertinence of our actions in an era of globalized economic interconnection. Shopping focuses on the practice of shopping and its relationship to Christian spirituality and asks: How does Christian justice and solidarity play a role in the ways in which we value and spend our money? Can shopping be a Christian act? Can it be sinful?
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Book Synopsis Faith, Hospitality and Shopping by : International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication
Download or read book Faith, Hospitality and Shopping written by International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces by : Jon Pahl
Download or read book Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces written by Jon Pahl and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian historian Sidney Mead has observed: "In America space has played the part that time has played in older cultures of the world." In Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces, Jon Pahl examines this provocative statement in conversation with what he calls the "spatial character" of American theology. He argues that places are always imaginatively constructed by the human beings who inhabit them. Sometimes this spatial theology works to our benefit; other times it poses spiritual risks. What happens when our banal "clothing of the sacred" violates our genuine need for comfort and intimacy? Or when we remember that the fleeting pleasures of a shopping trip or a Disneyland escape are designed to fill someone else's pocket rather than the spiritual emptiness in our own hearts? Pahl develops several ways to "clothe the divine from within the Christian tradition." He introduces a theology of place that reveals aspects of God's character through biblical metaphors drawn from physical spaces, such as the true vine, the rock, and the living water. Accessible and thought provoking, this enlightening book provides a better grasp of our particularly American way of lending religious significance to spaces of all kinds.
Book Synopsis Faith, Hope, and Love in the Kingdom of God by : Robert Hernan Cubillos
Download or read book Faith, Hope, and Love in the Kingdom of God written by Robert Hernan Cubillos and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world full of challenges. The three graces can almost be seen as motors for Christian life in today's world, but the words faith, hope, and love have so many everyday uses that their technical, theological meanings are, for many, difficult to appreciate. Modern life also leaves many yearning for authenticity and meaning. Many religions have answered that need by calling to mind the image of a path. Always profound progressions, religious paths tend to be motivated either by practices (the act of walking the path) or focal points. Christianity has a focal point, an object, and it sees the three graces as distinctively content filled. The heart of this book is about helping people find the Christian path and their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual balance--an equilibrium that is sustained by a strong personal faith, an enduring hope for the future, and genuine love that will withstand the worst of times. It contributes to the category of Christian literature that provides a pattern for Christian living without surrendering the intellect to the more popular side of this genre.
Download or read book Brands of Faith written by Mara Einstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, marketing insider Mara Einstein has produced a lively account of the book in the commercialization of religion.
Download or read book Navigate Your Faith written by Ron Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the point of being a Christian anymore? Many Christians today are feeling unfulfilled in their walk with God, and they have no idea it's because of the little decisions they're making each day that are leading them into lives of compromise. In Navigate Your Faith Ron Pratt uses a fictional American family to expose how the enemy lures believers into prioritizing their own pleasure, entertainment, or career goals over their relationship with Christ. This erodes their passion for Jesus and causes them to become spiritually bored and have powerless Christian lives. Rather than claiming that God will approve of Christians no matter what they do, as some modern ministers do, Navigate Your Faith challenges readers to take a hard look at their lives and see if they're simply incorporating Jesus into their lifestyles or allowing Him to set them on a course of His choosing. With proven strategies to rebuild lost intimacy with God, this book will help Christians recognize the deceptive tactics of the enemy, break out of complacency, and make a greater impact on the world around them. This book will help you recognize and avoid the deception of today's nominal Christian culture.
Book Synopsis The Divine Supermarket by : Malise Ruthven
Download or read book The Divine Supermarket written by Malise Ruthven and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1989 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British journalist Malise Ruthven set out on a pilgrimage across America to vist places of religious significance. He wanted to see how, what, and why Americans worship. He reveals the religious soul of America in a perceptive, witty, and sometimes frightening study.
Book Synopsis Shopping-list for Modern Man by : William Norman Pittenger
Download or read book Shopping-list for Modern Man written by William Norman Pittenger and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faith written by Sharon Follows and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has never been easy for Faith. Losing her mother at a young age, Faith has had to fend for herself, and hasn't made the best decisions. She decides to escape an abusive relationship by renting a vacation house in beautiful Prince Edward Island. While Faith chooses to forget about him and the mediocre life she's been living, karma will have its revenge on him. Better than she had ever dreamt up in her mind. Faith is determined to live an authentic life, and discover who she truly wants to be, surrounded by the most beautiful vistas she's ever seen. She's immediately drawn to the beaches, collecting her precious sea glass that reminds her of her mother. On one occasion, she meets a dashing stranger who saves her flyaway hat. There is an instant connection, for both her and Archer, and after parting, they become obsessed with finding one another once again. Fate steps in and Faith finds her mystery man, and he's even more wonderful than she could have imagined. He encourages her to believe in herself, and she can't believe she's found "the one." Just when Faith thinks she is finally on the right path, her past comes back to haunt her, and drags her back down into the depths of despair. An emotion she had hoped would never touch her heart again. Perhaps fate had other plans for her. Was she ever going to get her happily ever after? She would have to wait and see, along with doing her best on the only journey anyone ever has. Or so she thought.
Download or read book Faith’S Lesson written by Anne Radcliff and published by InspiringVoices. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns lyrical and touching, set amid a landscape of beauty, Faiths Lesson - The Chronicles of Barrows Hollow takes the reader on travels with a turn-of-the-century New England heroine. Armed with tenacious self-reliance and wit, bolstered by faith and values, the young girl finds herself in a world of circumstance quite unlike that of her own. Struggling with her stirring feelings for a suitor of means and privilege, Faith is forced to confront her past, her roots, and her truest test of priority in life. Lost family members and seemingly lost hope converge to lead Faith to her most important decision. Faiths Lesson captures the readers imagination as the struggles, hopes, and dreams of a young girl and the feverish progress of her years have become a series of vignettes, as though they were a recollection of a dream. Nothing remains now of those times, save a majestic memory. As this narrative recollects, you are invited to share those memories, which until now have remained safe in the hallowed quiets of Barrows Hollow.
Book Synopsis Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom by : Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
Download or read book Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom written by Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumerism, unsustainable growth, waste and inequalities continue to ail societies across the globe, but creative collectives have been tackling these issues at a grassroots level. Based on an autoethnographic study about a free food store in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book presents a first-hand account of how a community is organized around surplus food to deal with food poverty, while also helping the reader to see through the complexity that brings the free food store to life. Examining how alternative economies and relations emerge from these community solutions, the author shows it is possible to think, act and organize differently within and beyond capitalist dynamics.
