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Title: Materialism, consumerism, and religion: A Buddhist vision for nonprofit marketing
Authors: Choudhury, Koushiki
Keywords: Brand Community
Consumer Culture
Netnography
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: SCOPUS
International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Series/Report no.: 24(3)
Abstract: This study delves into the interaction between materialism and religion and explores how consumers reconcile their religious precepts with materialism in today's consumerist society, with an ethnographic study of one of the world's largest Nichiren Buddhist organizations. The study reveals that instead of ideological ways of thinking that often resorts to rigid categorization, such as spiritualism at conflicts with materialism and liberalism opposing socialism, religion can transcend the spirit of materialism and the duality that characterizes most thinking. It can harmonize even the apparently contradictory entities of consumerism, materialism, and spiritualism and root itself in the reality of life, leading to an individual inner revolution and consequent social transformation.
Description: Choudhury, Koushiki, Department of Marketing, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India
ISSN/ISBN - 14654520
DOI - 10.1002/nvsm.1634
URI: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85061958705&doi=10.1002%2fnvsm.1634&partnerID=40&md5=cc4f4e17126c882b9a0ddd7ac68a7e7e
https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/1119
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