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Authentic Fakes explores the religious dimensions of American popular culture in unexpected places: baseball, the Human Genome Project, CocaCola, 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 book is at once an incisive analysis of the relationship between religion and popular culture and a celebration of the myriad ways in which invention can stimulate the religious imagination.Moving beyond American borders, Chidester considers the religion of McDonalds and Disney, the discourse of W.E.B. Du Bois and the American movement in Southern Africa, the messianic promise of Nelson Mandelas 1990 tour to America, and more. He also looks at the creative possibilities of the Internet in such phenomena as Discordianism, the Holy Order of the Cheeseburger, and a range of similar inventions. Arguing throughout that religious fakes can do authentic religious work, and that American popular culture is the space of that creative labor, Chidester looks toward a future pregnant with the possibilities of new kinds of authenticity.
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This book had some cool ideas, but I found some sections pretty dense and hard to follow. Authentic Fakes does a good job of exploring the intersection of religion and pop culture, but I felt like it could have used simpler language for clarity. Worth a read if you’re committed!
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Ethan Johnson
Interesting Concepts, But Dense
This book had some cool ideas, but I found some sections pretty dense and hard to follow. Authentic Fakes does a good job of exploring the intersection of religion and pop culture, but I felt like it could have used simpler language for clarity. Worth a read if you’re committed!
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Ethan Johnson
Interesting Concepts, But Dense
This book had some cool ideas, but I found some sections pretty dense and hard to follow. Authentic Fakes does a good job of exploring the intersection of religion and pop culture, but I felt like it could have used simpler language for clarity. Worth a read if you’re committed!
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Hannah Kim
Not What I Expected
I was excited to read 'Religion and American Popular Culture' but was disappointed. The theories are interesting, but I received my copy with some damage to the cover, which was a bummer. Just not quite what I was looking for—maybe better suited for a niche audience?
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Hannah Kim
Not What I Expected
I was excited to read 'Religion and American Popular Culture' but was disappointed. The theories are interesting, but I received my copy with some damage to the cover, which was a bummer. Just not quite what I was looking for—maybe better suited for a niche audience?
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