
Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi
Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace
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Natalie Naudus
From jewelry to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions - especially those of the East - are 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 people’s lives.
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I think this would have been exponentially better as a short form essay rather than a full length book. The content is informative, I would have liked to see more a more skillful execution.
Interesting concept, redundant writing
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