David Chidester, Author HarperOne $32 (640p) ISBN 978-0-06-251708-1
It takes a brave author to write this kind of history, where every chapter, in some cases every sentence, requires passing through territory that has been analyzed, debated, deconstructed and reassembled for 2,000 years. Yet Chidester (professor of...
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David Chidester, Author Beacon Press (MA) $27.5 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0218-6
In Chidester's persuasive analysis, South Africa's apartheid system of racist separation and domination functions much like a religion sustained by self-perpetuating rituals, symbols and myths. Torture of black prisoners, a frequent occurrence that...
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David Chidester, Author Indiana University Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-253-20690-9
Chidester uses theology to interpret the November 1978 mass murder-suicide of some 900 Jim Jones followers in Guyana, concluding that the Peoples Temple was a meaningful religious movement. (Sept.)no pw review.
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