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Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi
Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace
Author: Sophia Rose Arjana
Narrator: Natalie Naudus
Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/04/2020
Category: Philosophy - Zen
Synopsis
From jewelry to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditionsespecially those of the Eastare being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as new age or spiritual, they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the mystical and exotic 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 peoples lives.