Selling Spirituality

... a genuine tract for our times. Carrette and King ruthlessly expose the cultural omnipotence of contemporary capitalism, the Moloch of our age. <br>-Richard Roberts, Lancaster University <br> This book is a long-needed, highly insightful critique of the spiritual supermarket, site of the prostitution of spirituality for personal profit and corporate gain. Jeremy Carrette and Richard King have provided a powerful indictment of the corporate exploitation of 'the spiritual, ' using advertising and the media to distort the ethical and philosophical teachings of the world religious traditions to buttress their control of the minds of the people they wish to dominate as their loyal consumers. Serious students and teachers of spiritual thought or practice are well-advised to cultivate their self-critical alertness and hone their critical insight with the help of this hard-edged and illuminating book. <br>-Robert Thurman, Columbia University <br> In Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King explore the ways that spirituality and business have become entangled....They make clear and convincing arguments for the dilemmas and problems inherent in the marketing of self-development and the branding of spirituality....They provide and engaging overview of the historical and religious development of Eastern and Western spirituality and the ways in which profit and spirituality have become increasingly intertwined. <br>-Marc Lesser, Shambhala Sun, March 2005 <br>