TY - BOOK AU - Chidester,David TI - Wild religion: tracking the sacred in South Africa T2 - Binghamton University Music Department tape recordings SN - 9780520951570 AV - BL2470.S6 C47 2012eb U1 - 200.968 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Religion and sociology KW - South Africa KW - Cults KW - Nativistic movements KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Sociologie religieuse KW - Afrique du Sud KW - Diversité culturelle KW - RELIGION KW - History KW - bisacsh KW - TRAVEL KW - Special Interest KW - Religious KW - Comparative Religion KW - fast KW - Religion KW - Religionsethnologie KW - gnd KW - Ritus KW - Religious life and customs KW - Südafrika KW - Kontinent KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Going wild -- Mapping the sacred -- Violence -- Fundamentalisms -- Heritage -- Dreamscapes -- Purity -- Power -- World Cup -- Staying wild N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=450753 ER -