Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Wild Religion : Tracking the Sacred in South Africa / / David Chidester



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Chidester David Visualizza persona
Titolo: Wild Religion : Tracking the Sacred in South Africa / / David Chidester Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]
©2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
Disciplina: 200.968
Soggetto topico: Cults - South Africa
Cults -- South Africa
Cultural pluralism - South Africa
Cultural pluralism -- South Africa
Nativistic movements - South Africa
Nativistic movements -- South Africa
Religion and sociology - South Africa
Religion and sociology -- South Africa
South Africa - Religion
South Africa -- Religion
South Africa - Religious life and customs
South Africa -- Religious life and customs
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
African Religions
Soggetto geografico: South Africa Religion
South Africa Religious life and customs
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century
african renaissance
animal sacrifice
comparative religion
democracy
freedom park
healing and reconciliation
indigenous religions
neo shamans
prison gangs
religious diversity
religious heritage
religious historians
religious history
religious rituals
religious scholars
religious studies
robben island
sacredness
south africa
south african history
south african politics
spiritual dimensions
theology
traditionalism
world religion
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 analyzes indigenous rituals of purification on Robben Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the new national shrine, Freedom Park, and rituals of animal sacrifice at the World Cup. Not always in the national interest, indigenous religion also appears in the wild religious creativity of prison gangs, the global spirituality of neo-shamans, the ceremonial display of Zulu virgins, the ancient Egyptian theosophy in South Africa's Parliament, and the new traditionalism of South Africa's President Jacob Zuma. Arguing that the sacred is produced through the religious work of intensive interpretation, formal ritualization, and intense contestation, Chidester develops innovative insights for understanding the meaning and power of religion in a changing society. For anyone interested in religion, Wild Religion uncovers surprising dynamics of sacred space, violence, fundamentalism, heritage, media, sex, sovereignty, and the political economy of the sacred.
Titolo autorizzato: Wild Religion  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49218-X
9786613587411
0-520-95157-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807653603321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui