(Read free) Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
♛ David Chidester ♛
| #608124 in Books | 2005-04-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.73 x6.00l,.92 | File Name: 0520242807 | 306 pages
||9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Cool and interesting|By T. Bachman|This book deals with something I've wondered about for a long time: the seemingly religious aspects of (pop) cultural ideas, images, totems, rituals, etc., and in particular, the role of human imagination, and in many cases, deliberate fraud, in creating a backdrop of meaning for life.
While the book is a pleasurable read, it does||
“Chidester’s book will simultaneously entertain and educate.”
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 fakeryin the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulationsplays in creating religious experience. His ... [PDF.qo20] Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture Rating: 4.87 (659 Votes)
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture | David Chidester. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
