Retail Religion: Hinduism for a Neoliberal Age

A new discourse that both indigenizes and sacralizes mass consumption and corporate labor has emerged alongside the opening of India’s economy at the turn of the twenty-first century. To illustrate this argument, I take as my case study the so-named “retail religion” that leaders within India’s reta...

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Main Author: Moodie, Deonnie 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 3, Pages: 863-884
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