Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical MarketplaceFrom 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

mass-market journalism

one of the foremost Malay women writers of the past century

and a lotto ticket changes Yasmeen’s life—but not for the better

They train their eyes on Brazilian superstar Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima

a masterpiece

di samping transkripsi temu ramah istimewa seputar kepengarangan beliau dan sastera Malaysia

Her research focuses on socio-political issues in Thailand and Malaysia

A virtuoso Fin-de-Siècle Viennese innovator of what he called the “telegram style” of writing

fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez

Some of them were literally problems of life and death to the growing Muslim community

the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience

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