Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life (Paperback)

Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life By Antonio Eduardo Alonso Cover Image
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WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE

Resist This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God's activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes.

About the Author


Antonio (Tony) Eduardo Alonso is Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of Catholic Studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. He is also a widely published composer of liturgical music.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780823294114
ISBN-10: 0823294110
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Date: June 1st, 2021
Pages: 200
Language: English