Authentic Fakes Highlands & Islands Find freedom by forgiving yourself

Find freedom by forgiving yourself and others

and a family secret spanning hundreds of years

and the growing evidence that animals dream too

On top of it all

author of Invisible Women

Authentic Fakes Highlands & Islands Find freedom by forgiving yourselfAuthentic 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.