Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi

Buying Buddha, Selling RumiFrom jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions especially those of the East are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as New Age or spiritual, they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the mystical and exotic East promising a path to enlightenment and inner peace. In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi, Sophia Rose Arjana examines the appropriation and sale of

it draws from a lifetime’s work – from Borges’s first published volume of verse

capitalist exploitation

race and faith are discussed and embraced frenetically

and capitalist modernity

A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian history

make our coffee

Or of economic opportunity

social movements flare up but then lose steam through a lack of tangible goals

" – Michael Herzfeld

It distils a lifetime of research into a revealing account of a vitally important part of our planet

In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems(1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005)

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