{"id":1349,"date":"2001-11-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/05\/2001-11-05-religious-books-sales-booming\/"},"modified":"2001-11-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-05T12:00:00","slug":"2001-11-05-religious-books-sales-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/05\/2001-11-05-religious-books-sales-booming\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Books Sales Booming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/asia.cnn.com\/2001\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/07\/10\/spiritual.books\/index.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA, GEORGIA, November 1, 2001: The book business boomed during the &#8217;90s. The New Economy has suffered some setbacks, and general book sales are down. But in one part of the book business, business is still good: Sales of religious books are up more than four percent. &#8220;People are extremely hungry for experiences of God, experiences of faith, experiences of the divine,&#8221; said Tom Beaudoin, a theologian and author. He observes that this spiritual desire comes even as church attendance in America has declined. &#8220;The more suspicious people are of their local church, then the more apt they are to just assemble their own books, to assemble their own spiritual life,&#8221; he explained. The idea of drawing from many religions is a popular one these days, said Beaudoin. &#8220;Americans take very seriously their right to assemble in their shopping cart a little bit of John Paul II, a little bit of Judaism, a little bit of Hinduism, a little bit of Buddhism &#8230; and say, &#8220;That is my spirituality.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ATLANTA, GEORGIA, November 1, 2001: The book business boomed during the &#8217;90s. The New Economy has suffered,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}