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Title: Dying of consumption: four new books examine the dangers of consumerism and show how Americans are getting less from our "buy more" culture.(culture in context)(Bibliography)
Author: Patrick McCormick
Publication: U.S. Catholic (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Claretian Publications
Volume: 69 Issue: 4 Page: 38(3)Article Type: BibliographyDistributed by Thompson Gale
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MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TOOK OFFENSE at President Bush's suggestion that we respond to 9/11 by going to the mall. Regardless of our shopping habits, most Americans don't believe consumption is a virtue, and very few of us in those horrific days and weeks were interested in showing terrorists that they hadn't toppled our precious "consumer confidence." Indeed, long before Bush's comment many of us had concerns about our consumer culture. For more than two decades Catholic university and high school students have read Jesuit Father John Kavanaugh's critique in Following Christ in a Consumer Society (Orbis, 1981), and for nearly as long Catholic parishioners have nodded at homilies based on Pope John Paul...
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