Marketing God

Marketing God
Author: Donna A. Heckler
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681924013

Marketing God is a crash course unlike any you’ve had before, meant for Catholic parishes, dioceses, religious orders, Catholic organizations, start-ups, apostolates, and anyone who is passionate about their Christian faith and looking for ways to share it effectively. Donna A. Heckler, a global marketing executive who has served a variety of multibillion-dollar organizations with names you know, offers her winning strategies and critical corporate marketing insights to faith-based organizations to help them build their brands and craft messages that are relevant, meaningful, and true. This primer on effective marketing and communication in the context of faith includes: Forty identified corporate strategies that are most critical to faith-based organizations A no-nonsense approach to marketing, branding, and positioning your parish or organization Simple strategies you can start using today Scripture references that help illustrate the strategies A handy glossary of marketing terms for the non-marketer You will learn (and quickly) that marketing is not a bad word for Catholics — or for any Christians. It's a concept, complete with a series of tactics, that can be employed to help further the Kingdom.

Marketing God to Teens

Marketing God to Teens
Author: Ryan J. Doeller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2010-11-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1456822527

As companies such as Coca-Cola and Toyota respectively become increasingly prominent through self-promotion and fierce competition for the attention and allegiance of the teenage demographic, by contrast, church attendance amongst young people in the West is in decline. These companies invest considerable resources in finding ways to market their products in ways that appeal to young people, distinguishing their products from those of their competitors and ensuring long-term brand loyalty through providing customer satisfaction. The potential impact of the continuation of these trends compels us to address the controversial question of whether, and to what extent, the church could learn from the marketing strategies of secular organizations, and apply their techniques in order to address the diminishing interest of young people in Christianity.

The Market as God

The Market as God
Author: Harvey Cox
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0674973151

“Essential and thoroughly engaging...Harvey Cox’s ingenious sense of how market theology has developed a scripture, a liturgy, and sophisticated apologetics allow us to see old challenges in a remarkably fresh light.” —E. J. Dionne, Jr. We have fallen in thrall to the theology of supply and demand. According to its acolytes, the Market is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It can raise nations and ruin households, and comes complete with its own doctrines, prophets, and evangelical zeal. Harvey Cox brings this theology out of the shadows, demonstrating that the way the world economy operates is shaped by a global system of values that can be best understood as a religion. Drawing on biblical sources and the work of social scientists, Cox points to many parallels between the development of Christianity and the Market economy. It is only by understanding how the Market reached its “divine” status that can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity. “Cox argues that...we are now imprisoned by the dictates of a false god that we ourselves have created. We need to break free and reclaim our humanity.” —Forbes “Cox clears the space for a new generation of Christians to begin to develop a more public and egalitarian politics.” —The Nation

Making a Market for Acts of God

Making a Market for Acts of God
Author: Paula Jarzabkowski
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199664765

Reinsurance is a market that provides cover for the devastating consequences of unpredictable events such as Hurricane Katrina, or the Tohoku earthquake, underpinning society's capacity to rebuild after the unthinkable happens. This book fleshes out how this important and quirky financial market works.

God, His People, and Network Marketing

God, His People, and Network Marketing
Author: Eddie Traylor
Publisher: Life to Legacy, LLC
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781947288621

In his debut literary rendering, Eddie Traylor's words of wisdom dispel a perceived inconsistency between God and prosperity, in this amazing new book titled God, His People, and Multilevel Marketing. This book unveils spiritual precepts about business, and how the accumulation of wealth can benefit God's people and His Kingdom. The author masterfully interprets key Bible passages that give personal insight into the 21st century marketplace. As a bonus, the author includes an interview with the successful multilevel marketing guru Dave Silverman of Rochester, New York. This book is an examination of the advantages of Network Marketing (also known as Multilevel Marketing) over traditional business models. One great advantage is that startup costs are within reach of people with ordinary incomes. Additionally, overhead costs are much lower because you work from home. Whereas other businesses require commercial space and hardware, with Network Marketing all that's needed is a cell phone and a computer. In addition to these, add ambition, determination, commitment, and self-confidence, and let your dreams take you to the next level. However, the most important factor is having faith in God. With all this working together for your good, there are no limits to the spiritual and financial success that you can achieve. Finally, this book is a heartfelt appeal as a Network Marketer for local churches and their congregations to open their hearts and minds to see the possibilities. This industry can financially empower both individuals and congregations where everyone can benefit-all to the glory of God!

Marketing Peace

Marketing Peace
Author: Paromita Goswami
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1527500861

Religious terrorism accounted for 66% of all deaths from terror attacks in 2013. Using religion as a trump-card for justification of violence has increased sharply since 2000, significantly overtaking political and nationalist separatist movements. There has, however, been no serious attempt to understand how peace can be offered as an alternative product to violence, if it was handled by commercial marketers. If a presidential candidate, sportsperson, detergents or banking services can be marketed, can peace be marketed too? This book argues that social marketing, which uses commercial marketing principles for social good, may make a significant contribution to encouraging peace. The book unearths the subconscious metaphorical frames utilised by Christians in their conceptualisations of Muslims in the US, and vice versa, through a two-fold approach. Firstly, ethnographic field-work is used to gain the trust of the community and to understand the lived-in experience of community members in their natural social setting. Secondly, the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) is adopted as a tool to discern the metaphorical lens that Christians and Muslims use to view each other. The study suggests how this metaphorical lens of framing may help in designing more effective interventions that would fundamentally alter the mechanism of ‘contact’ between rival majority and minority religious groups in conflict.

One Market Under God

One Market Under God
Author: Tom Frank
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140901794X

At no other moment in history have the values of business and the corporation been more nakedly and arrogantly in the ascendant. Combining popular intellectual history with a survey of recent business culture, Thomas Frank traces an idea he calls 'market populism' - the notion that markets are, in some transcendent way, identifiable with democracy and the will of the people. The idea that any criticism of things as they are is -litist can be seen in management literature, where downsizing and ceaseless, chaotic change are celebrated as victories for democracy; in advertising, where an endless array of brands seek to position themselves as symbols of authenticity and rebellion; on Wall street, where the stock market is identified as the domain of the small investor and common man; and in the right-wing politics of the 1990s and the popular theories of Tom Peters, Charles Handy and Thomas Friedman. One Market Under God is Frank's counterattack against the onslaught of market propaganda. Mounted with the weapons of common sense it is lucid and tinged with anger, betrayal and a certain hope for the future.

Religious Commodifications in Asia

Religious Commodifications in Asia
Author: Pattana Kitiarsa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2007-11-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134074441

This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the market-religion convergences in Asia. Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, it discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia’s diverse religious traditions. Covering key issues in the anthropology and sociology of contemporary Asian religion, it draws theoretical implications for the study of religions in the light of the shift of religious institutions from traditional religious beliefs to material prosperity. The fact that religions compete with each other in a ‘market of faiths’ is also at the core of the analysis. The contributions show how ordinary people and religious institutions in Asia adjusted to, and negotiated with, the penetrative forces of a global market economy into the region’s changing religio-cultural landscapes. An excellent contribution to the growing demands of ethnographically and theoretically updated interpretations of Asian religions, Religious Commodifications in Asia will be of interest to scholars of Asian religion and new religious movements.

The God Market

The God Market
Author: Meera Nanda
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1583673105

Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today’s India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwining of Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growing capitalist class. It is this “State-Temple-Corporate Complex,” she claims, that now wields decisive political and economic power, and provides ideological cover for the dismantling of the Nehru-era state-dominated economy. According to this new logic, India’s rapid economic growth is attributable to a special “Hindu mind,” and it is what separates the nation’s Hindu population from Muslims and others deemed to be “anti-modern.” As a result, Hindu institutions are replacing public ones, and the Hindu “revival” itself has become big business, a major source of capital accumulation. Nanda explores the roots of this development and its possible future, as well as the struggle for secularism and socialism in the world’s second-most populous country.

Selling God

Selling God
Author: Robert Laurence Moore
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 329
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195098382

In a sweeping colourful history that spans over two centuries of American culture, Moore examines the role of religion in America as it appropriated (and was appropriated by) commercial culture. He reveals the centrality of religion, and the marketplace, in American popular culture.