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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store?by Bill Talen
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:THE SPIRITUAL LEADER OF THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING TAKES HIS ANTI-CONSUMERIST SERMON FROM THE STAGE TO THE PAGE The Reverend Billy is a revivalist preacher who leads the Church of Stop Shopping, an anti-consumerist communion devoted to putting the odd into God. Created by the actor Bill Talen, the Reverend first appeared alongside the sidewalk preachers in Times Square during the Giuliani years, bringing his new post-religious theology to eager crowds. In these pages we go inside the Disney Store on 42nd Street ("the high church of retail") to witness staged dramas against consumerism that employ 800 neurotic Disney characters with their "reeling eyeballs and sky-cracking grins" as the mise en scene. We encounter the icon-twisting logic of credit card exorcism performed in front of astonished tourists, and listen to a gospel choir made up of "recovering preachers' kids" singing anti-Starbucks anthems at the cash register of the $5 latte. We watch as the defense of a community garden is turned into an Off-Broadway hit and join with the Reverend as he preaches love and peace to the crowds that gathered spontaneously in Union Square after the attacks of September 11. Book News Annotation:What Reverend Billy calls "shopping interventions" the police call
illegal trespassing, and the New York activist/performance artist has
been arrested frequently for staging his pulpit-thumping anti-
consumerist "services" in Starbucks coffee shops and Disney stores.
Talen's memoir of sacred subversion through the Church of Stop
Shopping is both very funny and dead serious about the reasons he
believes that consumerism is the root of much evil in the world and
that social change starts with civil disobedience.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:The spiritual leader of the Church of Stop Shopping takes his anti-consumerist sermon from the stage to the page. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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