2nd Edition
Selling Spirituality The Silent Takeover of Religion
Preface to Second Edition
Introduction: Spirituality and the Rebranding of Religion
1: Neoliberalism as the New Orthodoxy
2: A Brief History of Spirituality
3: Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality
4: Christianity and Prayers to the Neoliberal Self
5: Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Philosophies
6: Mindfulness in an Age of Mass Distraction
7: Selling the Soul: The Business of Capitalist Spirituality
8: Selling the Future: Green Spirituality, Neoliberalism and the Climate Crisis
Conclusion: Challenging the Corporate Take Over of Our Attention
References
Biography
Jeremy Carrette is Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Culture and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, and is author of numerous books, including Foucault and Religion (2000), Religion and Critical Psychology (2007) and William James’s Hidden Religious Imagination (2013).
Richard King is Professor of Global Philosophy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and is the author of various books including Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism (1995), Orientalism and Religion (1999), and Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought (2000).
