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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 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:
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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
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)450753

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.