Journal of Engineering and Architecture

Religious Products, Product Design, Meanings, and Economy of Religion
Serkan Güneş

Abstract
The diversity of religious products, potential customers, and overall turnover consistently attract capitalist production's attention. The provision of services and goods for the maintenance of spirituality and its sustainability constitutes the simplest, the most common, the most general, and the most natural relationship between religious systems and the economy. All sorts of sacredness attributable to the product have become a fundamental product entry for producers who are willing to get a market share in the economy of religion, along with all other product qualities that are diversifying and differentiating. It is difficult to classify marketed religious products because of their various beliefs, meanings, and uses. However, the classification of holy products is essential to understand the structure of the religious product market. This study classifies religious products with two approaches: various religious products depending on the supply and demand affiliation of the belief system and religious products based on their purposes and representations.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jea.v10n2a6