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Zusatztext "Written in an original! scholarly and entertaining way." Informationen zum Autor David Chidester is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is the author of Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture (UC Press)! Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa ! Christianity: A Global History ! Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones! the Peoples Temple ! and Jonestown . Klappentext "This book offers us a wild! exhilarating ride. In rethinking the sacred in South African history! Chidester throws searing light on the dangerous! creative force of religion untamed! religion that flourishes well beyond the confines of formal! domesticated faith. In so doing! he expands our understanding of the place of spirituality in processes of world-making -- not merely in Africa! but everywhere." - Jean Comaroff! author of Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism Zusammenfassung Takes us through South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. This title analyses indigenous rituals of purification on Robben Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the national shrine, Freedom Park, and rituals of animal sacrifice at the World Cup. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Going Wild 2. Mapping the Sacred 3. Violence 4. Fundamentalisms 5. Heritage 6. Dreamscapes 7. Purity 8. Power 9. World Cup 10. Staying Wild Notes Index
