Selling Spirituality and the Silent Takeover of Religion

• Book: Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion. Jeremy Carrette and Richard King.

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Vanessa Fisher:

"Jeremy Carrette and Richard King argue in their book ... that with the rejection of the Church and institutional religious ideology, we increasingly moved towards a new form of authoritarianism of the market and capital. Spiritual self-actualization became a new kind of market-actualization, often clever for its very concealment.

They state:

- “The territorial takeover of religion by psychology (individualism) offers the platform for the takeover of spirituality by capitalism (corporatisation). Psychology provides a way for the market to embrace religion through the language of ‘spirituality’ and politically removes its threat to the status quo. While “New Age” followers dance the gospel of self-expression they often service the financial agents and chain themselves to a spirituality of consumerism.” (http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/12/spirit-inc-the-politics-of-modern-spirituality-the-stalled-revolution-vanessa-d-fisher/)