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Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
David Chidester
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| #516765 in Books | 2005-04-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.73 x6.00l,.92 | File type: PDF | 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
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 fakery—in the guise of frauds, charlatans, inventions, and simulations—plays in creating religious experience. His b...
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