The globalization of consumer culture poses a further danger. When we encounter the knowledge and practices of other cultures online or in other circumstances where they have been disconnected from their living human context, it may seem as if they belong to no one and that we can therefore do with them what we wish. We may even feel that we are showing appreciation by doing so. But religious traditions and cultural practices are not yet another set of products to be acquired and consumed. That is a kind of spiritual materialism or cultural appropriation and not genuine human sharing.
