Following Christ in a consumer society :the spirituality of cultural resistance /John F. Kavanaugh.

Name/Title

Following Christ in a consumer society :the spirituality of cultural resistance /John F. Kavanaugh.

Description

Reading the life of the consumer society -- Behind belief and the cultural gospel -- The commodity form: consuming and marketing -- Missing persons -- Idolatrous appearances of the commodity form -- Toward a Christian philosophical anthropology -- The God of the Jewish scriptures : idolatry and covenant -- Reading the life of Christ -- Christ and the idols of capitalism -- Lived Christianity in an idolatrous culture -- Christian practice in the personal form -- Living life in the personal world -- Revolutionary holiness. xlviii, 240 p. ;21 cm.

Book Details

Author

Kavanaugh, John F.

Place Published

City

Maryknoll, N.Y.

Date Published

circa 2006

Publication Subjects

Christian sociology--United States. Christian life--Catholic authors.

Call No.

BT738 .K37 2006

ISBN

9781570756665 (pbk.), 157075666X (pbk.)

LCCN

2006009460

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-232) and index.