David Chidester

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

David Chidester is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Chidester has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Education and 11 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in David Chidester's work include Religion, Society, and Development (27 papers), African cultural and philosophical studies (11 papers) and Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria (10 papers). David Chidester is often cited by papers focused on Religion, Society, and Development (27 papers), African cultural and philosophical studies (11 papers) and Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria (10 papers). David Chidester collaborates with scholars based in South Africa and United States. David Chidester's co-authors include Marita Sturken, Elizabeth Elbourne, Edward T. Linenthal, Kader Asmal, Irving Hexham, Nelson Mandela, Wilmot James, Abdulkader Tayob, Pierre L. van den Berghe and Wolfram Weiße and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

In The Last Decade

David Chidester

73 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Chidester South Africa	18	966	359	276	225	211	80	1.6k
Karen E. Fields United States	11	1.3k 1.3×	164 0.5×	357 1.3×	233 1.0×	119 0.6×	19	2.0k
Russell T. McCutcheon United States	17	1.2k 1.2×	649 1.8×	182 0.7×	89 0.4×	260 1.2×	106	1.6k
Bruce Lincoln United States	21	665 0.7×	368 1.0×	306 1.1×	74 0.3×	184 0.9×	93	1.4k
Jonathan Boyarin United States	13	808 0.8×	164 0.5×	312 1.1×	122 0.5×	110 0.5×	59	1.8k
Jonathan Z. Smith United States	17	887 0.9×	552 1.5×	367 1.3×	62 0.3×	127 0.6×	51	1.7k
Martin Riesebrodt United States	12	1.4k 1.5×	288 0.8×	411 1.5×	53 0.2×	218 1.0×	26	1.9k
Avery F. Gordon United States	13	1.2k 1.2×	141 0.4×	245 0.9×	278 1.2×	162 0.8×	34	2.1k
James Laidlaw United Kingdom	14	1.1k 1.1×	180 0.5×	743 2.7×	146 0.6×	81 0.4×	32	2.0k
Catherine Bell Canada	5	550 0.6×	166 0.5×	352 1.3×	72 0.3×	67 0.3×	23	1.4k
Saidiya Hartman United States	14	1.5k 1.5×	142 0.4×	532 1.9×	133 0.6×	221 1.0×	24	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by David Chidester

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Chidester

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All Works

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Chidester, David. (2019). Religion.

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Chidester, David. (2018). Religion. 30 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2017). Beyond Religious Studies? The Future of the Study of Religion in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. 71(1). 74–85. 7 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2014). Religions of South Africa (Routledge Revivals). 2 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2013). Thinking Black: Circulations of Africana Religion in Imperial Comparative Religion. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1(1). 1–27. 1 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2013). Postgraduates Producing Knowledge. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 26(1). 5–7. 4 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2012). Wild Religion. 17 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2011). Sacred. Material Religion. 7(1). 84–90. 4 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2006). Religion Education and the Transformational State in South Africa. Social Analysis. 50(3). 13 indexed citations

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Mandela, Nelson, Kader Asmal, David Chidester, & Wilmot James. (2003). Nelson Mandela in his own words : from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches. 5 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (2003). Primitive Texts, Savage Contexts: Contextualizing the Study of Religion in Colonial Situations. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 15(3). 272–283. 1 indexed citations

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Chidester, David, et al.. (2001). Forum: American Religious People as “Other”. Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation. 11(1). 1–30.

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Chidester, David. (2000). Mapping the Sacred in the Mother City: Religion and Urban Space in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal for the Study of Religion. 13. 5–68. 11 indexed citations

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Elbourne, Elizabeth, et al.. (2000). African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography. Journal of Religion in Africa. 30(2). 256–256. 1 indexed citations

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Chidester, David, et al.. (1997). Christianity in South Africa. Greenwood eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Chidester, David, et al.. (1996). American Sacred Space.. Journal of American History. 83(3). 989–989. 74 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (1994). Authentic forgery and forging authenticity : comparative religion in South Africa. 2 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (1992). Religions of South Africa. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (1991). Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 17 indexed citations

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Chidester, David. (1986). The Symmetry of Word and Light. Augustinian Studies. 17. 119–133. 1 indexed citations

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