Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability

1. Introduction
Lyn Thomas

Part I. Sustaining Life: Theories and Representations of Religion and Consumerism

2. Consumerism as Theodicy: Religious and Secular Meaning Functions in Modern Society
Tim Jackson, Miriam Pepper

3. Not Exactly a Selling Point? Religion and Reality TV
Nicholas Buxton

4. Living in a Material World: Religious Commodification and Resistance
Sharmina Mawani, Anjoom Mukadam

5. Sustaining Spiritualities in Consumer Cultures
Lyn Thomas

Part II. Everyday Practices of Religion and Consumption and Their Environmental Dimensions: Paradise Lost?

6. Faith in Ethical Consumption
Paul Cloke, Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke, Alice Malpass

7. Islam in the Globalised World: Consumerism and Environmental Ethics in Iran
Hossein Godazgar

8. Consumerism in Slovak Catholic Homes
Zuzana Búriková

9. ‘What’s Not Spent Is Lost’: Consumption Practices of Pakistani Muslims in Britain
Kaveri Harriss

10. From the Parliament to the Market: Political Consumerism and the Fight for Sabbath
Omri Shamir, Guy Ben-Porat

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Cultural Studies, Social Aspects of Religion, Sociology, general