David Chidester

Authentic Fakes

Religion and American Popular Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780520242807
• ISBN-10: 0520242807
• Artikelnr.: 21644623

Autorenporträt

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 are winners of the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Religious Studies.