List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Something Else” is Sacred
Chapter One: A Brief History of American Consumerism: Late 1800s-2021
Chapter Two: The Disciples, Doctrines, and Detractors of American Consumerism
Chapter Three: Christian Economic Creeds and the Spirit of American Consumerism & Anti-Consumerism
Chapter Four: Sacrificial Financial Giving as a Means of Partially Resisting Consumerism
Conclusion: Shopping for Creeds: Why Ideological Shopping Carts Matter
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Author
Peter Mundey is assistant professor of Sociology at Savannah State University.
For scholars of religion interested in how the sacred plays out in
everyday life and for religious leaders concerned about the threat
of consumerism to their faith communities’ financial well-being,
here is a book filled with arresting information drawn from a
national survey and in-depth interviews. Sacred Consumption offers
information that confirms - and disconfirms - popular assumptions
about consumerism.
*Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University*
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