The Divine Supermarket: Shopping for God in America

by Malise Ruthven

Book Overview

'A perfect guide and crazy concept...It's a rocking good read and something of a pocket guide to hell.' - Time Out Travelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877959552
• ISBN13: 9780877959557
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

entretenido e informativo

este libro es a entretenido a la vez que informativo. lo leia hace ya unos anos pero recuerdo que me causo buena impresion como este hombre se embarcaba desde gran bretana a recorrer el territorio de los EE UU para cer e investigar las diferentes religiones y sectas que se encuentran. este libro es importante como estudio socilogico y de cultura de EE UU.

Fascinating look at US religious culture by an outsider.

I read this book several years ago and am trying to relocate it. The author is a British journalist and, I believe, divinity student who spent two years traveling the U.S. and observing how religion weaves into the fabric of U.S. culture. About one third of the book covers the Mormons, and another third is spent in the Bible Belt. The author writes as an outsider with a cool eye, but midway through he has an allergic reaction to hypocrisy and gets into a shouting match with a born-again motel owner trying to chisel him on room rates. It's a totally fascinating piece of cultural anthropology