Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa

by David Chidester

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520273087
• ISBN13: 9780520273085
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"