Vision questing in the New Forest: Indigenous spirituality in the public sphere and the cultural values underlying the Idle No More movement
This article considers issues related to Indigenous spirituality in the public sphere. More specifically it examines ways Indigenous people have actively engaged in the electronic public sphere to communicate spiritual teachings and to fulfill kinship responsibilities by utilizing their spiritual gi...
| Published in: | Social compass |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Sage
[2020]
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| In: |
Social compass
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Idle No More
/ Spirituality
/ Indians
/ Public space
/ New media
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Canada
B Public Sphere B Autochtones B Social Justice B Indigenous People B sphère publique B Facebook B Idle No More B Justice sociale |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This article considers issues related to Indigenous spirituality in the public sphere. More specifically it examines ways Indigenous people have actively engaged in the electronic public sphere to communicate spiritual teachings and to fulfill kinship responsibilities by utilizing their spiritual gifts to benefit their human and non-human relatives, including the environment, through social action. The author takes the Idle No More movement (INM) as an example of a grass-roots social justice movement that effectively used Facebook as a public platform to create awareness and to mobilize social action. However the spiritual foundation of such social action is often lost in the message. And all social action, including the INM movement, has to be understood in spiritual terms. In this article, the author examines the representations of Indigenous spirituality expressed in the electronic public sphere with a focus on the cultural values underlying the Idle No More Movement. Cet article constitue un premier examen de questions liées à la spiritualité autochtone dans la sphère publique. Dans le contexte contemporain, les peuples autochtones ont activement utilisé les médias pour communiquer des enseignements spirituels et s'acquitter de leurs responsabilités familiales en utilisant leurs dons spirituels au profit de leurs proches humains et non humains, y compris l'environnement, par le biais de l'action sociale. Cet article analyse le mouvement Idle No More (INM) en tant qu'exemple d'un mouvement de justice sociale de base qui utilise efficacement Facebook comme plate-forme publique pour sensibiliser et mobiliser un nombre important de personnes dans l'action sociale. Or le fondement spirituel d'une telle action sociale est souvent perdu dans le message. Et toute action sociale, y compris le mouvement INM, doit être comprise en termes spirituels. Dans cet article, l'auteur analyse les représentations de la spiritualité autochtone exprimées dans la sphère publique électronique en mettant l'accent sur les valeurs culturelles qui sous-tendent le mouvement Idle No More. |
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| ISSN: | 1461-7404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0037768619894814 |