We have a religion: the 1920s Pueblo Indian dance controversy and American religious freedom

Pueblos and Catholics in Protestant America -- Cultural modernists and Indian religion -- Land, sovereignty, and the modernist deployment of "religion" -- Dance is (not) religion : the struggle for authority in Indian affairs -- The implications of religious freedom -- Religious freedom an...

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Main Author: Wenger, Tisa Joy 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Chapel Hill Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University by the University of North Carolina Press c2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (2010) (Birchfield, Donald L.)
Further subjects:B Pueblo Indians ; Rites and ceremonies
B Religious Tolerance
B Ritual
B Pueblo dance
B Christianity and culture
B Christianity
B Interfaith Relations
B Religious Tolerance (Southwest, New)
B Christianity and other religions (Southwest, New)
B Pueblo Indians
B Pueblo Indians Rites and ceremonies
B Racism ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
B New Southwest
B Christianity and culture (Southwest, New)
B Pueblo Indians Religion
B RELIGION ; Ethnic & Tribal
B Dance
B Racism Religious aspects Christianity
B Pueblo Indians ; Religion
B Electronic books
B Syncretism
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Summary:Pueblos and Catholics in Protestant America -- Cultural modernists and Indian religion -- Land, sovereignty, and the modernist deployment of "religion" -- Dance is (not) religion : the struggle for authority in Indian affairs -- The implications of religious freedom -- Religious freedom and the category of religion into the twenty-first century
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and therefore not eligible for the constitutional protections of the First Amendment. In this book, Tisa Wenger shows that cultural notions about what constitutes "religion" are crucial to public debates over religious freedom. In the 1920s, Pueblo Indian leaders in New Mexic
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN:0807894214