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Consider This: The Bobo Future

Bourgeois bohemians wield inordinate power over how we think about consumerism, morality—and faith itself.

By Roberto Rivera | posted 7/25/00 | posted 7/10/2000 12:00AM

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Roberto Rivera is a fellow at Prison Fellowship's Wilberforce Forum.

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Other Christianity Today articles on consumerism include:Trapped in the Cult of the Next Thing | If ever there was a cult that gave us stones when we were looking for bread. (September 6,1999)Keeping Up with the Amish | We evangelicals have made a too-easy peace with the inroads of consumerism. (October 4, 1999)Shopping for the Real Me | Why can't I ever seem to find the right fit? (November 15, 1999)Several excerpts from Bobos in Paradise are available online including, Brooks' personal introduction to the book which ran in the Washington Post and Brooks' anaylses of the S&M group, the Arizona Power Exchange, which ran in the Weekly Standard magazine. Brooks participated in an online chat with Newsweek.com. "Brooks writes regularly for The Weekly Standard magazine.

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