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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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
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| Veröffentlicht: |
London
Repeater
[2019]
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| In: | Jahr: 2019 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Kapitalismus
/ Achtsamkeit
/ Massenpsychologie
/ Kommerzialisierung
/ Politische Reform
/ Ablenkung
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion BL Buddhismus ZB Soziologie ZC Politik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Mindfulness (Psychology)
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| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | "[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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physische Details: | 296 Seiten, 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-912248-31-5 1-912248-31-X |
