Consumerism as Folk Religion: Transcendence, Probation and Dissatisfaction with Capitalism

Studies in Christian Ethics 28 (4):447-460 (2015)
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Consumerism will be understood as a ‘folk religion’, as a contemporary everyday way to make sense of and deal with transcendence. Contrary to longstanding critiques I will argue that consumerism also carries an ethical potential that comes into conflict with the results of the capitalist order of production

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