The Consuming Passion
Subtitle: Christianity & the Consumer Culture
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780830818976
Subjects: Christian theology; Christianity; Religion; Church And Society; Religion - Socialissues; Sociology of Religion; Religious aspects; Religion - Contemporary Issues; Anthropology - Cultural; Christianity - Theology - General; Christian Theology - General; Christianity and culture; Consumption (Economics)
First sentence: My thesis in the following essay is that contemporary consumer behavior, often pejoratively labeled "consumerism," far from representing abnormal or aberrant behavior within modern society and culture, actually discloses modernity's highest ideals.