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What Would Jesus Buy?: Reverend Billy's Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse
 
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What Would Jesus Buy?: Reverend Billy's Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse (Paperback)

by Billy Talen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S. (5 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1586484478
  • ISBN-13: 978-1586484477
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 539,542 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Times, April 2007
"This collection of 'Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse' is
for everyone who has taken on board Naomi Klein's No Logo and the Slow
Movement."


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This work deals with the Gospel according to the Church of Stop Shopping- a manifesto for activists and fans of 'No Logo' and 'Culture Jam' and the hilarious companion to the new documentary by Super Size Me film-maker Morgan Spurlock. Founded by performance artist and activist Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy), the Church of Stop Shopping is on a mission to protest against the modern culture of commercialization and consumption that leads to environmental devastation, social iniquity and other dangers both measurable and immeasurable. Reverend Billy first began preaching in Times Square, New York, and has since been touring America incessantly spreading the word. What Would Jesus Buy? is published to coincide with the release of Morgan Spurlock's latest film of the same name. Spurlock's documentary, which follows Reverend Billy on a month-long revival tour across America will be launched at next January's Sundance festival. This spoof of a religious tract and prayer book is designed to make readers laugh, think and to stop the consumerism - with the exception of this one book, of course - that Reverend Billy believes is destroying our planet. The book covers: how to start your own Church of Stop Shopping; Reverend Billy's retail interventions; Reverend Billy's epistles - explanations of Church doctrine; confessions and responses from the Reverend; and, how to convert someone to the Church of Stop Shopping. It includes many other wonderful pieces that will entertain, convince, convert, and give readers actions they can take to become a member (even an occasionally backsliding one) of the Church of Stop Shopping.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Silly and profound, like all the best surrealists, 3 Oct 2008
By Jeremy Williams (London) - See all my reviews
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'What Would Jesus Buy?' is a book of thoughts and sermons released to coincide with the film of the same name. There are prayers and songs, letters, and instructions for flash-mob style shopping 'interventions'. And then there's the Reverend's thoughts from a California jail after he got arrested in Disneyland on Christmas day, after one such intervention.

It's all classic Reverend Billy in full manic flow, his righteous indignation expressed in a torrent of mixed metaphors, quasi-spiritual psychobabble, and street corner philosophy. At times you have to imagine him preaching it in order to understand it, as he fires off an enthusiastic "strange-a-luja!" at the mystery of life, calls readers to "back away from the product", or warns us all to flee the coming "shopocalypse".

Some of it is inspired, some of it rambling and odd. It's certainly fabulous - silly and profound at the same time, as the best surrealists are.

Perhaps its not a book to read through in one go, but to dip in and out of, to make you laugh, to make you dream. And of course, to make you stop shopping.
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