Charisma in the Marketplace: The Transformative Role of Prosperity Religions in Southeast Asia’s Economic Modernization
Religion has been described as an opiate, a reversion to tradition, and a method of coping with modern life. Drawing on case studies of contemporary prosperity-based religious movements in Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines and Vietnam, this paper shows that religion can play a dynamic and facilit...
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Common Ground Publishing
2011
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The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Year: 2011, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 47-58 |
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