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Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
David Chidester
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Description for Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
Paperback. Explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in places such as: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLP5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
"Authentic Fakes" explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through the cultural landscape and discovers the role that fakery - in the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulations - plays in creating religious experience. His book is at once an incisive analysis of the relationship between religion and popular culture and a celebration of the myriad ways in which invention can stimulate the religious imagination. ... Read more
"Authentic Fakes" explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the charisma of Jim Jones, Tupperware, and the free market, to name a few. Chidester travels through the cultural landscape and discovers the role that fakery - in the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulations - plays in creating religious experience. His book is at once an incisive analysis of the relationship between religion and popular culture and a celebration of the myriad ways in which invention can stimulate the religious imagination. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242807
SKU
V9780520242807
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About David Chidester
David Chidester is Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, author of Christianity: A Global History (2000), Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (1996), and Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown (revised edition, 2003), and coeditor of American Sacred Space (1995). Savage Systems and Salvation and Suicide ... Read more
Reviews for Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
"Chidester's book will simultaneously entertain and educate." Libraryjournal .Com