David Chidester reveals the rich diversity of Christianity through the deeds and beliefs of mystics and scholars, heretics and saints, witches and healers, preachers and inquisitors, as well as through the emergence of the major streams of Christian thought and practice. Opening a sweeping panorama,[...]
How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half [...]
"Authentic Fakes" explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through the [...]
Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa's political journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores African indigenous religious heritage with a [...]
Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa's political journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores African indigenous religious heritage with a [...]
This book engages American sacred space. It uncovers and recovers the sacred character of American land and environments, mountains and monuments, homes and museums, and foreign and domestic perceptions of America through carefully detailed case studies.[...]