Between Strangeness and an Alternative Buddhist Lifestyle: An Expression of Religious Non-Conformity in Consumer Culture

This study contributes to the sociological understanding of the social perceptions of religious engagement and its self-presentation inconsumer culture. Drawing on three years of comparative ethnographic research on the Buddhist lifestyle in five different organisations in France and the Czech Repub...

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Main Author: Bártová, Zuzana (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: WVU 2022
In: Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe
Year: 2022, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-74
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