AFRICAN INDIGENOUS RELIGION, AFRICAN CHRISTIANITIES, AND THE FUTURE OF RELIGION

 

David Chidester Publications (1982-2018)

 

 

David Chidester

Emeritus Professor. Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town. davidc@iafrica.com

 

 

Books

2018. Religion: Material dynamics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2014. Empire of religion: Imperialism and comparative religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2014. Religions of South Africa (Routledge Revivals). London: Routledge.

2012. Wild religion: Tracking the sacred in South Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2010. Savage systems: Religion and colonialism in Southern Africa (in Japanese). Nishimura, A. & Shim, S. (trans.). Tokyo: Aoki-Shoten.

2008. Savage systems: Religion and colonialism (in Korean). Shim, S. (trans.). Seoul: Kyong Sae Won.

2005. Authentic fakes: Religion and American popular culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2005. Legacy offreedom: The ANC's human rights tradition. Asmal, K. & C. Lubisi (co-eds.). Johannesburg, Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.

2004. South Africa's Nobel laureates: Peace, literature, and science. Asmal, K. & W.G. James (co-eds.). Johannesburg, Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.

2004. Interfaith solidarity: A guide for religious communities. Du Toit, F. & C. Villa-Vicencio (co-authors). Cape Town: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

2004. Religion, politics, and identity in a changing South Africa. Tayob, A. & W. Weisse (co-eds.). Berlin: Waxmann.

2004. Nelson Mandela, in his own words. Boston: Little, Brown.

2003. What holds us together: Social cohesion in South Africa. Dexter, P. & W.G. James (co-eds.). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

2003. Salvation and suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Rev. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (2015. Audiobook, narrated by Grimsley, S.R., 10 hours and 45 minutes. Bloomington, Indiana: University Press Audiobooks). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2018/v31n2a14

2003. Nelson Mandela: From freedom to the future. Asmal, K. & W.G. James (co-eds). Johannesburg, Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.

2003. Nelson Mandela, in his own words: From freedom to the future. London: Little, Brown.

2002. Patterns of transcendence: Religion, death, and dying. 2^nd ed. Belmont: Wadsworth.

2001. Shür-i jãvidãnigl. Tavacoly, G. (trans.). Ghum: Markaz-i Mutãliãt va Tahghïghat-i Adyãn va Mazãhib.

2000. Christianity: A global history. London: Allen Lane/Penguin; San Francisco: HarperCollins.

1999. Diversity as ethos: Challenges for interreligious and intercultural education. Stonier, J. & J. Tobler (co-eds.). Cape Town: Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa.

1997. African traditional religion in South Africa: An annotated bibliography. Kwenda, C., R. Petty, J. Tobler & D. Wratten (co-authors). Westport: Greenwood Press.

1997. Christianity in South Africa: An annotated bibliography. Tobler. J. & D. Wratten (co-authors). Westport: Greenwood Press.

1997. Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa. Tobler, J. & D. Wratten (co-authors). Westport: Greenwood Press.

1996. Savage systems: Colonialism and comparative religion in Southern Africa. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

1995. American sacred space. Linenthal, E.T. (co-ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1994. Religion in public education: Options for a new South Africa. Mitchell, G., I.A. Phiri & A.R. Omar (co-authors). 2^nd ed. Cape Town: UCT Press.

1992. Word and light: Seeing, hearing, and religious discourse. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

1992. Religions of South Africa. London: Routledge.

1991. Shots in the streets: Violence and religion in South Africa. Boston: Beacon Press. (1992. Cape Town: Oxford University Press).

1990. Patterns of transcendence: Religion, death, and dying. Belmont: Wadsworth.

1988. Salvation and suicide: An interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (1991. Paperback ed.)

Chapters in books

2018. Heritage under construction: Boundary objects, scaffolding, and anticipation. In Meyer, B. & M. van de Port (eds.): Sense and essence: Heritage and the cultural construction of the real. Oxford: Berghahn.

2017. Interreligious football: Christianity, African tradition, and the religion of football in South Africa. In Adogame, A., A. Parker & N. Watson (eds.): Global perspectives on sports and Christianity. London: Routledge.

2017. Apartheid comparative religion in South Africa. In King, R. (ed.): Religion/theory/critique: Classic and contemporary approaches and methodologies. New York: Columbia University Press.

2016. Space. In Stausberg, M. & S. Engler (eds.): Oxford handbook of the study of religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016. Time. In Stausberg. M. & S. Engler (eds.): Oxford handbook ofthe study of religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015. Colonialism. In Segal, R. & K. von Stuckrad (eds.): Vocabulary for the study of religion. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill.

2015. Material culture. In Segal, R. & K. von Stuckrad (eds.): Vocabulary for the study of religion. Vol. 2. Leiden: Brill.

2015. Sacred. In Plate, S.B. (ed.): Key terms in material religion. London: Bloomsbury.

2015. Crosscultural religious business: Cocacolonization, McDonaldization, Disneyization, Tupperization, and other local dilemmas of global signification. In Reid, J. (ed.): Religion, postcolonialism, and globalization: A sourcebook. London: Bloomsbury.

2015. The religion of football: Sacrifice, festival, and sovereignty at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. In Brintnall, K. & J. Biles (eds.): Negative ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the study of religion. New York: Fordham University Press.

1988. Patterns of power: Religion and politics in American culture. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.

1987. Patterns of action: Religion and ethics in a comparative perspective. Belmont: Wadsworth.

2015. Zulu dreamscapes: Senses, media, and authentication in contemporary neo-shamanism. In Hackett, R.I.J. & B. Soares (eds.): New media and religious transformations in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2014. Popular culture. In Léon, L. & G. Laderman (eds.): Religion and American cultures: Traditions, diversity, and popular expressions. Vol. 2. 2^nd ed. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio.

2013. Religion education and the transformational state in South Africa. In Ferrari, S. & R. Cristofori (eds.): Religion in the public space: Volume III. Surrey: Ashgate.

2012. Economy (in Farsi). In Morgan. D. (ed.): Key words in the study of religion, media, and culture. Qom, Iran: Islamic Research Center, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

2012. Pure heritage: Indigenous, missionary, and anthropological constructions of sexual purity in South Africa. In Rösch, P. & U. Simon (eds.): How purity is made. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2012. Dreaming in the contact zone: Zulu dreams, visions, and religion in nineteenth-century South Africa (in Japanese). In Tanaka, M. & I. Koike (eds.): Religious practices. Kyoto: Kõyõshobõ.

2012. Dreaming in the contact zone: Zulu dreams, visions, and religion in nineteenth-century South Africa. In Hecht, R.D. & V.F. Biondo III (eds.): Religion and culture: Contemporary practices and perspectives. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

2012. African Christian communities, In Fisher. M.P. & L.W. Bailey (eds.): An anthology of living religions. 3^rd ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

2011. Colonialism (in Japanese). In Isomae, J. & T. Yamamoto (eds.): Beyond the concept of religion. Kyoto: Hozokan.

2011. Imperial reflections, colonial situations: James Frazer, Henri-Alexandre Junod, and indigenous ritual in Southern Africa. In Michaels, A. (ed.): Ritual dynamics and the science of ritual. Vol IV: Reflexivity, media, and visuality. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2011. Darwin's dogs: Animals, animism, and the problem of religion. In Lloyd, V.W. & E. Ratzman (eds.): Secular faith. Eugene: Cascade Books.

2009. Situating the programmatic interests in the history of religions in South Africa. In Hackett. R.I.J. & M. Pye (eds.): IAHR World Congress proceedings Durban 2000. The history of religions: Origins and visions. Cambridge: Roots and Branches.

2009. Frontiers of comparison. In Elliott, S.S. & M. Waggoner (eds.): Readings in the theory of religion: Map, text, body. London: Equinox.

2009. Zulu dreamscapes: Senses, media, and authentication in contemporary neo-shamanism. In Howes, D. (ed.): The sixth sense reader. Oxford: Berg.

2009. Religious fundamentalism in post-apartheid South Africa (in Japanese). In Mori, K. (ed.): Can Judaism, Christianity, and Islam coexist? Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.

2008. Economy. In Morgan, D. (ed.): Key words for religion, media, and culture. London: Routledge.

2007. Religion and the study of Africa. In Middleton, J. & J.C. Miller (eds.): New encyclopedia of Africa. Vol. 4. 2^nd ed. New York: Scribner's.

2007. Religious animals, refuge of the gods, and the spirit of revolt: W.E.B. Du Bois's representations of indigenous African religion. In Fontenot, C. & M. Keller (eds.): Re-cognizing W.E.B. Du Bois in the twenty-first century. Augusta: Mercer University Press.

2007. Real and imagined: Imperial inventions of religion in colonial Southern Africa. In Fitzgerald, T. (ed.): Religion and the secular: Historical and colonial formations. London: Equinox.

2007. Studying religion in South Africa. In Courville, M.E. (ed.): The next step in studying religion: A graduate's guide. London: Continuum.

2007. Religion education in South Africa. In De Souza, M., K. Engebretson, G. Durka, R. Jackson & A. McGrady (eds.): International handbook of the religious, spiritual and moral dimensions of education. New York: Springer.

2006. Indigenous traditions, alien abductions: Creolized and globalized memory in South Africa. In Stier, O.B. & J.S. Landres (eds.): Religion, violence, memory, and place. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2006. African Christian communities. In Juergensmeyer, M. (ed.): The Oxford handbook of global religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2006. 'Religion' and 'violence' in contemporary South Africa (in Japanese). In Asad, T. & J. Isomae (eds.): Renarrating religion: Reconsideration of the modern category. Tokyo: Misuzu-shobu.

2005. The American touch: Tactile imagery in American religion and politics. In Classen, C. (ed.): The book of touch. Oxford: Berg.

2005. Capps, Walter. In Jones, L. (ed.): Encyclopedia of religion. 2^nd ed. New York: Macmillan.

2005. Colonialism and postcolonialism. In Jones, L. (ed.): Encyclopedia of religion. 2^nd ed. New York: Macmillan.

2005. Jonestown and Peoples Temple. In Jones, L. (ed.): Encyclopedia of religion. 2^nd ed. New York: Macmillan.

2005. Animism. In Taylor, B. & J. Kaplan (eds.): Encyclopedia of religion and nature. New York: Continuum.

2005. Mutwa, Credo. In Taylor, B. & J. Kaplan (eds.): Encyclopedia of religion and nature. New York: Continuum.

2004. Introduction. Asmal, K. & W.G. James (co-authors). In Asmal, K., D. Chidester & W.G. James (eds.): South Africa's Nobel laureates: Peace, literature, science. Johannesburg, Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.

2004. Colonialism and shamanism. In Walter, M.N. & E.J.N. Fridman (eds.): Shamanism: An encyclopedia of world beliefs, practices and culture. Vol. 1. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.

2004. Prologue. Tayob, A. & W. Weisse (co-authors). In Chidester, D., A. Tayob & W. Weisse (eds.): Religion, politics, and identity in a changing South Africa. Berlin: Waxmann.

2004. Credo Mutwa, Zulu shaman: The invention and appropriation of indigenous authenticity in African folk religion. In Chidester, D., A. Tayob & W. Weisse (eds.): Religion, politics, and identity in a changing South Africa. Berlin: Waxmann.

2004. Credo Mutwa, Zulu shaman: The invention and appropriation of indigenous authenticity in African folk religion (in Japanese). In Kimura, T. (ed.): Sekai no minshu shukyo: Festschrift for Michio Araki. Tokyo: Minerva.

2004. 'Classify and conquer': Friedrich Max Müller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion. In Olupona, J.K. (ed.): Beyond primitivism: Indigenous religious traditions and modernity. London, New York: Routledge.

2004. Censorship. In Skotnes, P., G. van Embden & F. Langerman (eds.): Curiosity CLXXV: A paper cabinet. Cape Town: University of Cape Town.

2004. Forensics. In Skotnes, P., G. van Embden & F. Langerman (eds.): Curiosity CLXXV: A paper cabinet. Cape Town: University of Cape Town.

2003. Popular culture. In Léon, L. & G. Laderman (eds.): Religion and American cultures: An encyclopedia of traditions, diversity, and popular expressions. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio.

2003. Introduction. Dexter, P. & W.G. James (co-authors). In Chidester, D., P. Dexter & W.G. James (eds.): What holds us together: Social cohesion in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

2003. Globalisation, identity, and national policy in South Africa. Hadland, A. & S. Prosalendis (co-authors). In Chidester, D., P. Dexter & W.G. James (eds.): What holds us together: Social cohesion in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

2003. Conclusion: Social cohesion in South Africa. Dexter, P. & W.G. James (co-authors). In Chidester, D., P. Dexter & W.G. James (eds.): What holds us together: Social cohesion in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

2003. The church of baseball, the fetish of Coca-Cola, and the potlatch of Rock 'n' Roll: Theoretical models for the study of religion in American popular culture. In Hackett, D.G. (ed.): Religion and American culture: A reader. 2^nd ed. London, New York: Routledge.

2003. Introduction. Asmal, K. & W.G. James (co-authors). In Asmal, K., D. Chidester & W.G. James (eds.): Nelson Mandela: From freedom to the future. Cape Town, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers; London: Little, Brown.

2003. Crosscultural religious business: Cocacolonization, McDonaldization, Disneyization, Tupperization, and other local dilemmas of global signification. In Reid, J. (ed.): Religion and global culture: New terrain in the study of religion and the work of Charles H. Long. Lexington: Lexington Press.

2003. Religion education in South Africa: Teaching and learning about religion, religions, and religious diversity. In Larsen, L. & I.T. Plesner (eds.): Teaching for tolerance and freedom of belief. Oslo: Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

2003. Global citizenship, cultural citizenship, and world religions in religion education. In Jackson, R. (ed.): International perspectives on citizenship, education, and religious diversity. London: Routledge.

2002. Christianity and evolution. In James, W.G. & L. Wilson (eds.): The architect and the scaffold: Evolution and education in South Africa. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council and New Africa Education.

2002. Religion education: Learning about religion, religions, and religious diversity. In Asmal, K. & W.G. James (eds.): Spirit of the nation: Reflections on South Africa's educational ethos. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council and New Africa Education. 2001. Response to religious tolerance: A human rights approach. In Chidester, D. & D. Little (eds.): Religion and human rights: Toward an understanding of tolerance and reconciliation. Atlanta: Emory University, The Academic Exchange.

2001. Monuments and fragments: Religion, identity, and spaces of reconciliation. In Chidester, D. & D. Little (eds.).: Religion and human rights: Toward an understanding of tolerance and reconciliation. Atlanta: Emory University, The Academic Exchange.

2001. Multiple voices: Challenges posed for religion education in South Africa. In Caldwell. Z.T. (ed.): Religious education in schools: Ideas and experiences from around the world. Oxford: International Association for Religious Freedom.

2000. The word and the light, the ear and the eye: Contrasting Jew and Greek. In Zion, N. & B. Spectre (eds.): A different light: The big book of Hanukkah. New York: Devora Publishing.

2000. Foreword. In Cochrane, J. & B. Klein (eds.): Sameness and difference: Problems and potentials in South African civil society. Washington D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.

2000. Une epistemologie (exotique) de la religion en Afrique du Sud. In Faure, V. (ed.): Dynamiques religieuses en Afrique austral. Paris: Karthala/CEAN.

2000. Jim Jones. In Roof, W.C. (ed.): Contemporary American religion. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Library Reference.

2000. Colonialism. In Braun, W. & R.T. McCutcheon (eds.): Guide to the study of religion. London: Cassell.

2000. The church of baseball, the fetish of Coca-Cola, and the potlatch of Rock 'n' Roll. In Forbes, B. & J. Mahan (eds.): Religion and popular culture in America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2000. David Chidester traces the Peoples Temple to its mass suicide in Guyana (1978). In Allitt, P. (ed.): Major problems in American religious history: Documents and essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

1999. Embracing South Africa, internationalizing the study of religion. In Chidester, D., J. Stonier & J. Tobler (eds.): Diversity as ethos: Challenges for interreligious and intercultural education. Cape Town: Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa.

1999. Christmas in July: Laughter, pain, and incongruity and the study of religion. In Cohn-Sherbok, D. & C. Lamb (eds.): The future of religion: Postmodern perspectives. London: Middlesex University Press.

1999. Stories, fragments, and monuments. In Cochrane, J., J. de Gruchy & S. Martin (eds.): Facing the truth: South African faith communities and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip.

1998. Comparative religious studies. In Mouton, J. & J. Muller (eds.): Theory and method in South African human science research: Advances and innovations. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.

1997. Man, God, beast, heaven, light, burning fire. In Andree, T., C. Bakker & P. Schreiner (eds.): Crossing boundaries: Contributions to interreligious and intercultural education. Münster, Berlin: Comenius Institute.

1996. Bushman religion: Open, closed, and new frontiers. In Skotnes, P. (ed.): Miscast: Negotiating the presence of the Bushmen. Cape Town: UCT Press.

1996. Mutilating meaning: European interpretations of Khoisan languages of the body. In Skotnes, P. (ed.): Miscast: Negotiating the presence of the Bushmen. Cape Town: UCT Press.

1995. Gestures of dismissal, policies of containment: From denial to discovery in South African comparative religion. In De Gruchy, J. & S. Martin (eds.): Religion and the reconstruction of civil society. Pretoria: Unisa.

1995. Introduction. Linenthal, E.T. (co-author). In Chidester, D. & E.T. Linenthal (eds.): American sacred space. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1995. 'A big wind blew up during the night': America as sacred space in South Africa. In Chidester, D. & E.T. Linenthal (eds.): American sacred space. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1994. The poetics and politics of sacred space: Towards a critical phenomenology of religion. In Tymieniecka A.-T. (ed.): From the sacred to the divine: A new phenomenological approach. Analecta Husserliana: The yearbook of phenomenological research. Vol. XLIII. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

1992. The politics of exclusion: Christian images of illegitimacy. In Burman, S. & E. Preston-Whyte (eds.): Questionable issue: Illegitimacy in South Africa. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.

1990. Primal religions. In Prozesky, M. & J. de Gruchy (eds.): A Southern African guide to world religions. Cape Town: David Philip.

1986. Panel discussion: When does life begin? Abortion and In Vitrio Fertilization. In Benatar, S.R. (ed.): Ethical and moral issues in contemporary medical practice. Cape Town: Department of Medicine.

Articles

2018. World religions in the world. Journal for the Study of Religion 13, 1: 4153.

2018. Disrupting religion. Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 79, 3:379-383.

2017. Beyond religious studies? The future of the study of religion in a multidisciplinary perspective. NTT: Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 71, 1: 74-85.

2014. The accidental, ambivalent, and useless sacred. Material Religion 10, 2: 239-240.

2013. Postgraduates producing knowledge. Journal for the Study of Religion 26, 1: 5-7.

2013. Colonialism and religion. Critical Research on Religion 1, 1: 87-94.

2013. Thinking black: Circulations of Africana religion in imperial comparative religion. Journal of Africana Religions 1, 1: 1-27.

2012. An author meets his critics around Manuel A. Vásquez's More than belief: A materialist theory of religion. Comments by David Chidester. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 3: 190-192.

2011. Gates of distance. Frequencies: A genealogy of spirituality (November 17). Available at: http://freq.uenci.es/

2011. Sacred. Material Religion 7, 1: 84-91.

2010. Reflections on imitation: Ethnographic knowledge, popular culture, and capitalist economy. Etnofoor 22, 2: 139-153.

2010. Hopes and fears: A South African response to REDCo. With Federico G. Settler. Religion & Education 37, 3: 213-217.

2009. Darwin's dogs: Animals, animism, and the problem of religion. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 92, 1-2: 51-75.

2008. Dreaming in the contact zone: Zulu dreams, visions, and religion in nineteenth-century South Africa (in Japanese). Contact Zone 2: 1-21.

2008. Religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Scriptura: International Journal of Bible, Religion, and Theology in Southern Africa 99: 350367.

2008. Unity in diversity: Religion education and public pedagogy in South Africa. Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 55: 272-299.

2008. Zulu dreamscapes: Senses, media, and authentication in contemporary neo-shamanism. Material Religion 4, 2: 136-159.

2008. Engaging the wildness of things. Material Religion 4, 2: 232-233.

2008. Dreaming in the contact zone: Zulu dreams, visions, and religion in nineteenth-century South Africa. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76, 1: 27-53.

2006. Sacred nation or sold nation: South African 'religious work'. Wiser Review 2 (December): 11.

2006. Language, person, and place: Echoes of religion in minority literatures. Journal for the Study of Religion 19, 2: 5-16.

2006. Religion education and the transformational state in South Africa. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice 50, 3: 61-83.

2006. Atlantic community, atlantic world: Anti-Americanism between Europe and Africa. Journal of American History 93, 2: 432-436.

2004. Moralizing noise. Harvard Divinity School Bulletin 32, 3: 17.

2003. Fake religion: Ordeals of authenticity in the study of religion. Journal for the Study of Religion 16, 2: 71-97.

2003. Primitive texts, savage contexts: Contextualizing the study of religion in colonial situations. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 15: 272283.

2003. Religion education in South Africa: Teaching and learning about religion, religions, and religious diversity. British Journal of Religious Education 25, 4: 261-278.

2002. Credo Mutwa, Zulu shaman: The invention and appropriation of indigenous authenticity in African folk religion. Journal for the Study of Religion 15, 2: 65-85.

2002. Religion, globalization, and human rights. Human Rights Committee Quarterly Review, special edition (April): 77-86.

2001. Forum: American religious people as 'other'. Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 11: 2-9.

2000. Mapping the sacred in the Mother City: Religion and urban space in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal for the Study of Religion 13, 1-2: 541.

2000. Material terms for the study of religion. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68: 367-379.

2000. Haptics of the heart: The sense of touch in American religion and culture. Culture and Religion 1: 61-84.

2000. Belief and Values. Visionaries: The essential guide to the 21^st century, work leisure and lifestyle. BBC World Service. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci tech/features/essentialguide/viswrk.shtml

1998. Embracing South Africa, internationalizing the study of religion. Journal for the Study of Religion 11, 1: 3-33.

1998. No first or final solutions: Strategies, techniques, and Ivan Strenski's garden in the study of religion. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66: 369-376.

1998. Forum: Interpreting Waco. Religion in American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 8: 17-25.

1997. Taking the bull by the tail: Responses to the Lingua Franca article. Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion 26, 4: 80.

1997. La censure comme culture, la culture comme censure: La parole en gésine en Afrique du Sud. Rue Descartes 17: 31-42.

1997. Scholar's bookshelf: Religion and popular culture. Religious Studies News 12, 4: 17.

1996. Man, God, beast, light, burning fire. Southern African Review of Books 46 (November-December): 7-9.

1996. The church of baseball, the fetish of Coca-Cola, and the potlatch of Rock 'n' Roll: Theoretical models for the study of religion in American popular culture. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64, 4: 743-765.

1996. Anchoring religion in the world: A Southern African history of comparative religion. Religion 26: 141-160.

1995. The failure of the word. Southern African Review of Books (MarchApril): 18.

1992. Rage, healing in South Africa. The Witness 75, 12: 36-38.

1991. Saving the children by killing them: Redemptive sacrifice in the ideologies of Jim Jones and Ronald Reagan. Religion in American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 1: 177-201.

1991. Religion, racism, and violence: South Africa and North America. Viewpoints: The Journal of the Wisconsin Institute, a Consortium for the Study of War, Peace, and Global Cooperation 1: 2-15.

1990. Time, space, and tension in American Christianity. New Scholar 11:154-162.

1990. Review article: John Hall, Gone from the Promised Land. Religion 20: 89-92.

1989. Worldview analysis of African Indigenous Churches. Journal for the Study of Religion 2: 15-29.

1988. Rituals of exclusion and the Jonestown dead. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56: 681-702.

1988. Stealing the sacred symbols: Biblical interpretation in the Peoples Temple and the unification church. Religion 18: 137-162.

1988. Religion alive/religious studies unborn: A review of recent research on African Indigenous Churches. Journal for the Study of Religion 1: 8394.

1987. Published by authority: Religion in the President's Council Report on Youth. Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 61: 73-79.

1987. Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, and others. Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 60: 81-86.

1987. Religious studies as political practice in South Africa. Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 58: 4-17.

1986. Michel Foucault and the study of religion. Religious Studies Review 12:1-9.

1986. The symmetry of word and light: Perceptual categories in Augustine's Confessions. Augustinian Studies 17: 119-133.

1985. Theory and theology in the study of religion. Religion in Southern Africa 6: 75-94.

1985. Word against light: Perception and the conflict of symbols. Journal of Religion 65: 46-62.

1984. Symbolism and the senses in Saint Augustine. Religion 14: 31-51.

1984. The challenge to Christian ritual studies. Anglican Theological Review 66: 23-37.

1983. The symbolism of learning in Saint Augustine. Harvard Theological Review 76: 79-90.

1983. Aesthetic strategies in Western religious thought. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 51: 55-66.

1982. Being human: Symbolic orientation in new religious movements. Journal of Dharma 7: 430-451.

1982. Symbolic synesthesia in the history of religions. Epoche: Journal of the History of Religions 10: 32-45.