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Selling the Sacred: Religion and Marketing from Crossfit to QAnon

Selling the Sacred: Religion and Marketing from Crossfit to QAnon

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There’s religion in my marketing! There’s marketing in my religion! Selling the Sacred explores the religio-cultural and media implications of a two-sided phenomenon: marketing religion as a product and marketing products as religion. What do various forms of religion/marketing collaboration look like in the twenty-first century, and what does this tell us about American culture and society? Social and technological changes rapidly and continuously reframe religious and marketing landscapes. Crossfit is a “cult.” Televangelists use psychographics and data marketing. QAnon is a religion and big business. These are some of the examples highlighted in this collection, which engages themes related to capitalist narratives, issues related to gender and race, and the intersection of religion, politics, and marketing, among other key issues. The innovative contributors examine the phenomenon of selling the sacred, providing a better understanding of how marketing tactics, married with religious content, influence our thinking and everyday lives. These scholars bring to light how political, economic, and ideological agendas infuse the construction and presentation of the “sacred,” via more traditional religious institutions or consumer-product marketing. By examining religion and marketing broadly, this book offers engaging tools to recognize and unpack what gets sold as “sacred,” what’s at stake, and the consequences. A go-to resource for those working in marketing studies, religious studies, and media studies, Selling the Sacred is also a must-read for religious and marketing professionals.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Branding, Promotion, and Religious Media—Past and Present 1. From Logos to Logo and Back Again: Images as Transactional Objects in the History of Christian Devotion 2. Spiritual Healing for Sale: Medical Pluralism and the Commodification of Native American Healing Traditions 3. Rex Humbard, Psychographics, and the Hard Sell Part 2 Politics and Religio-Marketing 4. Sharpiegate 5. Two Truths and a Lie: Unpacking PragerU’s Hostile Rebrand of Climate Action in Religion of Green 6. A Head for Politics: Yarmulkes, Presidential Politics, and the Marketing of (Jewish) America 7. First Thoughts on a Second Qoming: Reading QAnon’s Occult Economy Through the Works of Jean and John Comaroff Part 3 Old Marketing in New Media 8. Faith-Centric Tiktoks: Promoting Religion through Personalized Experience and Engagement 9. Selling to "Smarties": The Marketing Strategies of a Social Justice Influencer 10. Marketing Mainline Campus Ministry: "God Loves Everyone, No Exceptions" 11. Inventing a Digital Evangelical Audience Part 4 Spirituality and Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) 12. Live Your Best Life Now: Wellness, Spirituality, and Multi-Level Marketing in the Health Freedom Movement 13. #BecauseofLuLaRoe: MLMs and the Rhetoric of Freedom, Girlboss Feminism, and Retail Ministry Part 5 Cult Branding, Purpose Marketing, and the Body Politic 14. Drinking the Crossfit Kool-Aid: Cult Marketing Meets Functional Fitness 15. Purpose-Driven Food: Evangelical Diet Marketing and Conscious Capitalism Part 6 Religion, Marketing, and the Spirit of Capitalism 16. Hinduism and the New Spirit of Capitalism: Vocational Theology in 21st-Century Spiritualist Self-Improvement Literature 17. Vintage not Retro: The Secondhand Social Life of Christian Material Culture 18. (Not) Marketing Atheism: A Conversation with Gregory Epstein


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781032378428
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 330
  • Weight: 657 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1032378425
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Religion and Marketing from Crossfit to QAnon
  • Width: 156 mm


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