Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion
"In exploring the meaning of religious meanings, Charles Long has put us in touch with the religious significance of our world by mapping its vast and unfathomable oceans, by charting the relations of human contact and exchange, conquest and colonization, materiality and opacity, representation and interpretation, identity and difference, and many other features of modernity that have all been mediated by vast bodies of water...has directed our attention to global oceanic relations that have produced profound local effects, especially in the formation of America. Significations is a book for thinking with, thinking through, and thinking about thinking in the study of religion."  --David Chidester, Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Capetown"Significations, a landmark in the History of Religions, will remain a durable classic in the discipline for a long time to come.  The beauty of the book, in part, lies in Charles Long's ability to draw immensely from African American and Indigenous traditions and his personal experiences, to provide theoretical insights into issues of meanings and significance of religion in our contemporary world.  This book is certainly one of the most original and provocative texts in Religious Studies available to us today."  --Jacob Olupona, Professor, African American and African Studies; Chair, Religious Studies Program, University of California, Davis