Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability

Introduction; L.Thomas PART I: SUSTAINING LIFE: THEORIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF RELIGION AND CONSUMERISM Consumerism as Theodicy: Secular and Religious Meaning Functions in Modern Society; T.Jackson & M.Pepper Not Exactly a Selling Point: Religion and Reality TV; N.Buxton Living in a Material World: Religious Commodification and Resistance; A.Mukadam& S. Mawani Sustaining Spiritualities in Consumer Cultures; L.Thomas PART II: EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF RELIGION AND CONSUMPTION AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS: PARADISE LOST? Faith in Ethical Consumption; P.Cloke, C.Barnett, N.Clarke & A.Malpass Islam in the Globalised World: Consumerism and Environmental Ethics in Iran; H.Godazgar Consumerism in Slovak Catholic Homes; Z.Búriková 'What's Not Spent is Lost': Consumption Practices of Pakistani Muslims in Britain; K.Harris From the Parliament to the Market: Political Consumerism and the Fight for Sabbath; G.Ben-Porat & O.Shamir

CLIVE BARNETT is Reader in Human Geography at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UKGUY BEN-PORAT is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Administration in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelZUZANA BÚRIKOVÁ is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, SlovakiaNICHOLAS BUXTON is a Minor Canon of Ripon Cathedral, UK. He was one of the participants in BBC2's The Monastery, and has a PhD in Buddhist philosophy NICK CLARKE is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton, UK PAUL CLOKE is Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, UK HOSSEIN GODAZGAR is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in Politics at the University of York, UKKAVERI HARRISS is a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Sussex University, UK TIM JACKSON is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey, UK and Director of RESOLVE - the ESRC Research group on Lifestyles, Values and EnvironmentALICE MALPASS is Research Associate at the University of Bristol, UK and works in the Academic Unit of Primary Health CareSHARMINA MAWANI is Lecturer at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK and is Vice-President of the Gujarat Studies Association, which she co-founded in 2005ANJOOM MUKADAM is Lecturer at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UKOMRI SHAMIR is a PhD Candidate in the department of Public Policy and Administration, Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel