Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age

The line between the secular and the sacred is increasingly blurred. Shopping malls have become cathedrals of consumption and religious holidays are marked as much by commercialism as by theological significance. In Brands of Faith, Mara Einstein, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens Colle...

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Main Author: Palmer, Ashley (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 247-248
Review of:Brands of faith (London : Routledge, 2008) (Palmer, Ashley)
Brands of faith (London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2008) (Palmer, Ashley)
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