McMindfulness: how mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
"[W]hat if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution,"...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London
Repeater
[2019]
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Capitalism
/ Watchfulness
/ Mass psychology
/ Commercialization
/ Political reform
/ Distraction
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Mindfulness (Psychology)
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "[W]hat if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution," exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification...challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all." --Supplied by the publisher |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | 296 Seiten, 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 191224831X |