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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david chidester”
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  • Salvation and Suicide

    Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

    by David Chidester ...
    Series series Religion in North America
    An "ambitious and courageous" examination of the Jonestown cult viewed through the lens of theology ( Journal of the American Academy of Religion).Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's groundbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world.For ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire of Religion

    Imperialism & Comparative Religion

    by David Chidester ...
    How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Religion

    Tracking the Sacred in South Africa

    by David Chidester ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Religion

    Material Dynamics

    by David Chidester ...
    Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. The book is divided into three sections: Part One revitalizes basic categories—animism ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Religions of South Africa (Routledge Revivals)

    by David Chidester ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, this title explores the religious diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent narrative and providing the first comparative study and introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that the complex distinctive character of South African religious life has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political context, and pays ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Religion and Global Culture

    New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long

    by Jennifer I. M. Reid, Philip P. Arnold, Kees W. Bolle, David Chidester, Julian Kunnie, Chirevo V. Kwenda, Charles H. Long, Tatsuo Murakami, Jacob K. Olupona, Jim Perkinson0 ...
    Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion who are concerned with situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors relates to the work of leading historian of religion Charles H. Long, who has identified religious meanings in the contacts and exchanges of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Ritual : Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

    Edited by Robert A. Orsi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. A group of distinguished scholars takes up some of the most pressing theoretical questions in the field. What is a 'religious tradition'? How are religious texts read? What takes place when a ... Read more

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  • Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies

    The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, the Illmuniati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, teh New World Order, and Many, Many More

    by Arthur Goldwag ...
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    A Study in Ethics and Politics

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