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- Title
How to manifest abundance: money and the rematerialization of exchange in Sedona, Arizona, USA.
- Abstract
Manifestation is a spiritual practice with material gains. It is a way for those involved with spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, to make money as required while maintaining a level of consonance between their economic life and spiritual path. Analysing the entwinement of economics and religion in everyday life, this article contributes to literature on spiritual economies and, more broadly, to the anthropology of money. Manifestation is a way of figuratively rematerializing exchange, mirrored in preferences for trade and barter and currency backed by gold. Dematerialized money – the stocks, bonds, and derivatives of high finance – is rejected as enacting a low vibration; it is negatively valenced in cosmologies of spirituality. Preferences for money forms reveal responses and reactions to neoliberal capitalism in an embedded, industrialized economy.
- Subjects
SEDONA (Ariz.); CAPITALISM; ECONOMICS &; religion; EVERYDAY life; ANTHROPOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2022, Vol 28, Issue 3, p920
- ISSN
1359-0987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9655.13772