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Wild Religion

Paperback • 2012 • English

Wild Religion

By David Chidester

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About the book

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 purificati...Show more

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ISBN

9780520273085

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Wild Religion

Format

Paperback

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