The Gospel of Sustainability

Monica M. Emerich is a faculty member at the Sustainable Practices Program at the University of Colorado and a research affiliate with the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado.

Preface; Introduction: The Business of Consciousness Methodology; Terminology: LOHAS as Marketplace, Culture, Movement and Discourse; Methods; A Short Tour of the Book One: Neither Mainstream or Alternative: LOHAS at the Crossroads; The New Battleground of Values A Look Back at Events: the History of LOHAS; "No More New Age!" Two: Healing the Self to Heal the World; From New Thought to Quantum Physics: Self-Healing Spiritualities; LOHAS in the Positive Thinking Tradition Three: A Vision of Health: Self, Society and the Natural World; The Ideology of Health Healing the Division between Nature and Human Four: Apologies, Redemption and Repair; Repairing The "Consequences of Modernity"; Reworking Desire Five: LOHAS, Social Reform and Good Capitalism; Success and the LOHASian; Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism Six: Mindful Consumption; The LOHAS "Middle Way"; Spiritualizing Consumption, Consuming Spirituality; Evangelizing LOHAS: Media, Spirituality and Culture; LOHAS: A Spirituality of Sustainability Seven: The Collective Conscience; LOHAS Communities; Class Issues, Taste and Distinction in LOHAS Conclusion Toward an Integrative Spirituality of Sustainability; Rationality and a "Reflexive Spirituality"; Spreading the Word Works Cited