This is a fascinating, lucid, and engaging account of the problems with attempts to resist capitalist consumerism with an idealized logic of the Eucharist. It makes important contributions to liturgical and ritual studies and Eucharistic theologies, as well as to theological and ethical critiques of consumption and capitalism more broadly. Antonio Eduardo Alonso provides a nuanced assessment of the Eucharist that accords both with lived experience and theological tradition, taking the reality of sin and persistent injustice seriously and also recalling a divine grace that can be invoked not just in spite of but together with such human and material brokenness.---Devin Singh, Dartmouth College

Commodified Communion is an extraordinary book. It is also extraordinarily important. Antonio Alonso offers a fresh and compelling reading of the Eucharist by attending to its celebration in a deeply commodified world. Most importantly, Commodified Communion offers a vision of hope beyond the trope of Eucharist as resistance, rooting hope instead in God’s own sovereign power to redeem. A fascinating and powerful read.---Teresa Berger, Yale Divinity School & Yale Institute of Sacred Music

...offers a provocative and valuable new approach to theological analyses of consumer culture...

Commodified Communion is Alonso’s first word on the intersection of liturgy and consumer culture, and I certainly hope it will not be his last. I recommend it highly.---Melanie Ross, Scottish Journal of Theology

Alonso’s Commodified Communion offers a provocative way to interpret daily living and liturgical practice with a deeply sacramental and prophetic conviction. This book would make a particularly solid contribution to courses in liturgy and culture and as a dialogue partner in wider discussions of theology and U.S. culture looking for constructive ways of considering the imbrication of liturgical practice and the pervasive consumer culture of the USA.

Antonio (Tony) Eduardo Alonso is Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of Catholic Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. He is also a widely published composer of sacred music.

Introduction | 1
The Praise of Camp at My Abuela’s Altarcito | 9

1 The Resistance | 17
Singing about a (Liturgical) Revolution | 45

2 Listening for the Cry in a Consumer Culture | 53
Salvation in the Shape of an Apple | 78

3 The Limits of Eucharistic Resistance | 86
Communion Commodified | 107

4 Confession, Hope, and Justice in a Commodified World | 115

Acknowledgments | 129

Notes | 133

Index | 181