The Buddhist Style in Consumer Culture: From Aesthetics to Emotional Patterns

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748929-20211488" target="_blank" >10.1163/18748929-20211488</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Buddhist Style in Consumer Culture: From Aesthetics to Emotional Patterns

Original language description

This paper contributes to the sociological theorization of religious lifestyles in consumer culture, analyzing one of its most important identity markers: style. Based on a three-year comparative ethnographic research project into five convert Buddhist organizations in France and the Czech Republic, it finds that style is expressed through aesthetics with its adornment practices apparent in everyday life materialization of Buddhist symbols. The stylistic dimension is also found in practitioners&apos; attitudes towards Buddhism, as they may use the discourse of taste. Moreover, Buddhist style stands for the collective, coherent, and systematic emotional patterns expressed in Buddhist symbols, individual and collective experiences, and the ethics and behavior they display in everyday life. The paper also explores how this style is adapted to the educated, middle-class, city-dweller practitioners and how it respects dynamics of consumer culture with its emphasis on identity, style, and values of well-being, authenticity, and personal development.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Religion in Europe

ISSN

1874-8910

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

28-54

UT code for WoS article

000730221200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85113780110