Faith & Consumerism | James Henley

Category: Faith & Consumerism

Jan201026

Culture, Society & Mission, Faith & Consumerism

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Are you a Consumer or a Commodity?

Or both?

Part of my dissertation reading has been Zygmunt Bauman’s book, Consuming Life, which describes and explores some of the implications of living in a consumerist society.

Bauman very quickly makes the connection from a society oriented around consuming products to a society which also finds itself consuming each other:

Jan201019

Culture, Society & Mission, Faith & Consumerism

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Faith & Consumerism amongst Young Adults

Some of you may know that I’m in the process of writing my undergraduate dissertation. I’ve been working my way through research, reading material and planning since September. Now I have my research approach fully sorted, it means I can begin to share a bit more of what it’s about. I’d also like to begin to blog through some of the reading material I’ve been looking at and some of the key issues and concepts I’ve been working through.

My dissertation is about how consumerism affects the way young adults understand and live out their Christian faith.

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