McMindfulness: how mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality

"[W]hat if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution,"...

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Main Author: Purser, Ronald E. 1956- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London Repeater [2019]
In:Year: 2019
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Capitalism / Watchfulness / Mass psychology / Commercialization / Political reform / Distraction
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Mindfulness (Psychology)
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Summary:"[W]hat if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution," exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification...challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all." --Supplied by the publisher
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:191224831X