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This volume brings together a group of articles concerned with ways of approaching Indigenous religions, focusing on the concepts of ""place"", ""language"" and ""community"" through case studies, fieldwork, literature and theories.

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Author:   Graham Harvey (Open University, UK) ,  Amy Whitehead
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.848kg
ISBN:  

9781138338531

ISBN 10:   1138338532
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   30 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume I 1. Indigenous religion(s) as an analytical category 2. Toward a scholarship of liberation: Arvind Sharma’s A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion 3. Guesthood as ethical decolonising research method Part 1: Place 4. Dreaming ecology: beyond the between 5. “People speaking silently to themselves”: An examination of Keith Basso’s philosophical speculations on “sense of place” in Apache cultures 6. The making of a sacred mountain: Meanings of nature and sacredness in Sápmi and northern Norway 7. Indigenising in a globalised world: The re-seeding of belonging to lands 8. Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!) 9. U.S. government burdens on the exercise of traditional religions: two cases provide conflicting interpretations Part 2: Language 10. “We are guaranteed freedom”: Pueblo Indians and the category of religion in the 1920s 11. The mystery of language: N. Scott Momaday, an appreciation 12. O’odham songscapes: journeys to Magdalena 13. A trickster tale about integrating indigenous knowledge in university-based programs 14. Conversing with some chickadees: cautious acts of ontological translation Part 3: Community 15. Authenticity, invention, articulation: theorizing contemporary Hawaiian traditions from the outside 16. Mesoamerican women’s indigenous spirituality: decolonizing religious beliefs 17. The truth of experience and its communication: reflections on Mapuche epistemology 18. Umbanda and hybridity 19. “Our ancestors paddle with us”: Chumash and Makah Indian “canoe culture” 20. Casting timeshadows: pleasure and sadness of moving among nomadic reindeer herders in north-east Siberia

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Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. Dr Amy Whitehead is based at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.

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