Dervish Piety Distinguished From Disneyanity

In Late Modernity, religion is increasingly complicit with the consumerist ethos of McWorld. Late Modern religion (what I term "Disneyanity") places inordinate emphasis upon personal experiences and, especially, belief.

The god of Disneyanity promises much (i.e., paradise) in return for very little (i.e., credulity). Belief coupled with confirmatory personal experiences deliver the immediate gratification necessary to keep consumerists coming back for more...

The god of the Dervish, however, offers impoverishment (emptiness) in return for a lifetime of devotion.

Poverty is the substance;
All else accident.

Poverty is the remedy,
Everything else a malady.

The world is a lie,
All pride, all vanity;

Poverty is a mystery
And raison d'etre of the world.

--Mevlana

[J. Nurbakhsh, Spiritual Poverty, 28]

Consumerism delivers emptiness as a by-product of empty promises.
Dervish emptiness, on the other hand, is achieved through acts of pious renunciation.