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Wild religion : tracking the sacred in South Africa / David Chidester.

By: 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
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520951570
  • 0520951573
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wild religion.DDC classification:
  • 200.968 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2470.S6 C47 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Going wild -- Mapping the sacred -- Violence -- Fundamentalisms -- Heritage -- Dreamscapes -- Purity -- Power -- World Cup -- Staying wild.
Summary: 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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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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