Re: Consumerism, Commodities, Life of the Mind
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Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · Education
DAVID LOY, Besl Professor of Ethics, Religion and Society, Xavier University Buddhist philosopher David Loy recently moved from the faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University in Japan to Xavier University in Ohio. His 1997 article, The Religion of the Market, sparked an ongoing discussion about the nature of consumer capitalism which, he claims, is the first truly world religion, binding all corners of the globe more and more tightly into a worldview and set of values whose religious role we overlook only because we insist upon seeing them as secular. His books include A Buddhist History of the West, Lack and Transcendence, The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory, and Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution.
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