Research Article
Consumerist Spirituality: Considering Spirituality in Consumerism Culture in Disruptive Era
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302147, author={Daniel Syafaat Siahaan and Yohanes Kristian Labobar}, title={Consumerist Spirituality: Considering Spirituality in Consumerism Culture in Disruptive Era}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Christian and Inter Religious Studies, ICCIRS 2019, December 11-14 2019, Manado, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICCIRS}, year={2020}, month={11}, keywords={spirituality consumerism popular culture disruptive}, doi={10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302147} }- Daniel Syafaat Siahaan
Yohanes Kristian Labobar
Year: 2020
Consumerist Spirituality: Considering Spirituality in Consumerism Culture in Disruptive Era
ICCIRS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302147
Abstract
Popular culture inevitably emerge in dissruptive era. It is like a black hole. Everyone is trapped in that black hole, especially the culture of consumerism. Consumptive behavior makes humans think and act manipulatively. The socio-economic consumptive behavior of individuals can have a bad impact because it has the potential to become someone living a wasteful lifestyle, which degrading their spirituality. From the environmental side, starting from the production process to consumption in the era of disruption has the potential to damage nature more massively. What forms of spirituality must be considered in facing an era of disruption, so both human and nature can be saved? This research intend to answer this question. The research method used is qualitative-descriptive, with a phenomenological approach, and will elaborate popular culture and spitiuality theory as a tool to analyze the issue.The implication of the result of this research is to make us aware the danger of consumerist behaviour in disruptive era, and to keep our planet alive.