Wild religion : tracking the sacred in South Africa / David Chidester.
Series: Binghamton University Music Department tape recordings ; 2013-12-11Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520951570
- 0520951573
- Religion and sociology -- South Africa
- Cults -- South Africa
- Nativistic movements -- South Africa
- Cultural pluralism -- South Africa
- South Africa -- Religion
- South Africa -- Religious life and customs
- RELIGION -- History
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- Cults
- Cultural pluralism
- Nativistic movements
- Religion
- Religion and sociology
- South Africa
- Religionsethnologie
- Ritus
- Südafrika Kontinent
- 200.968 23
- BL2470.S6 C47 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Going wild -- Mapping the sacred -- Violence -- Fundamentalisms -- Heritage -- Dreamscapes -- Purity -- Power -- World Cup -- Staying wild.
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 difference. As the spiritual dimension of an African Renaissance, indigenous religion has been recovered in South Africa as a national resource. Wild Religion analyses indigenous rituals of purification on Robben Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the new national shrine, Freedom Park.
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