Shopping for Meaningful Lives

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  • Shopping for Meaningful Lives Book Detail

  • Author : Bruce P. Rittenhouse
  • Release Date : 2013-03-27
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 224
  • ISBN 13 : 1621896048
  • File Size : 55,55 MB
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Shopping for Meaningful Lives by Bruce P. Rittenhouse PDF Summary

Book Description: Consumerism is a problem. It deforms individual character, our sense of obligation to one another, and our concern for future generations and the environment. Even in the aftermath of the worst economic downturn in seventy years, it remains a defining feature of Western cultures. But, beyond this assessment, neither Christian theologians and ethicists nor secular economists and sociologists have understood what drives consumerism or what can be done to counteract it. This is the problem that Bruce P. Rittenhouse solves in Shopping for Meaningful Lives. Dr. Rittenhouse analyzes economic, sociological, and psychological evidence to prove that consumers behave differently than the current theories predict. Dr. Rittenhouse shows that consumerism functions as a religion. It provides a means of assurance that an individual life is meaningful. Because we need this assurance to live out our everyday lives, consumerism takes precedence over whatever other values a person professes--unless a person can adopt a different way to secure the meaning of his or her life. This interpretation explains how consumers actually behave. From the perspective of Christian theology, consumerism is a wrong answer to a problem of human existence that should be answered by faith in Christ.

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