Event Details
An Evening with David Chidester
Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:00am
California Lutheran University, 60 W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks
Event Description
Cal Lutheran University presents an international religious expert who will discuss Zulu shamans in South Africa and North America.
David Chidester will speak on “Global Dreamscapes: Religion and Dreaming in a Changing World” in Samuelson Chapel. He will discuss the dreams, visions and extraordinary experiences of contemporary Zulu shamans in South Africa and North America. He will explore how these new spiritual mediums are bringing together religion, electronic media and sensory experiences in new combinations to follow their dreams into a changing, globalizing world.
Chidester, a religious studies professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town, includes the late rocker Jim Morrison and Santa Claus on his list of American shamans in his 2005 book “Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture.” He has written more than a dozen other books on religion, including “Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown” and “Christianity: A Global History.”
He is a two-time recipient of the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in Religious Studies and he won the Alan J. Pifer Award for Social Research from the National Research Foundation.
The presentation is the Second Annual Deborah Sills Memorial Lecture. The series was developed in memory of Deborah Sills, a CLU religion professor whose work focused on women and American popular culture.
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California Lutheran University
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Contact: Jarvis Streeter
Phone: (805) 493-3236
Web site: http://www.callutheran.edu
