Handbook of indigenous religion(s)

Introduction /Greg Johnson and Siv Ellen Kraft -- Towards a Typology of Academic Uses of ‘Indigenous Religion(s)’, or Eight (or Nine) Language Games That Scholars Play with This Phrase /Bjørn Ola Tafjord -- Religion as Peoplehood: Native American Religious Traditions and the Discourse of Indigenous...

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Contributors: Johnson, Greg 1968- (Editor) ; Kraft, Siv Ellen 1967- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Brill handbooks on contemporary religion volume 15
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Indigenous peoples / Religion / Nature religion
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Religions
B Indigenous Peoples Religion
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Summary:Introduction /Greg Johnson and Siv Ellen Kraft -- Towards a Typology of Academic Uses of ‘Indigenous Religion(s)’, or Eight (or Nine) Language Games That Scholars Play with This Phrase /Bjørn Ola Tafjord -- Religion as Peoplehood: Native American Religious Traditions and the Discourse of Indigenous Rights /Michael D. McNally -- u.n.-Discourses on Indigenous Religion /Siv Ellen Kraft -- Indigenous Feature Film: A Pathway for Indigenous Religion? /Cato Christensen -- Sounds Indigenous: Negotiating Identity in an Era of World Music /Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Not Real Christians? On the Relation between Christianity and Indigenous Religions in Amazonia and Beyond /Minna Opas -- Timing Indigenous Culture and Religion: Tales of Conversion and Ecological Salvation from the Amazon /John Ødemark -- Materialising and Performing Hawaiian Religion(s) on Mauna Kea /Greg Johnson -- Becoming Human: ‘Urban Indian’ Decolonisation and Regeneration in the Land of Enchantment /Natalie Avalos -- Global Indigeneity and Local Christianity: Performing O’odham Identity in the Present /Seth Schermerhorn -- Spiritual, Not Religious; Dene, Not Indigenous: Tłįchǫ Dene Discourses of Religion and Indigeneity /David S. Walsh -- Unsettled Natives in the Newfoundland Imaginary /Suzanne Owen -- The Shamanic Festival Isogaisa (Norway): Religious Meaning-Making in the Present /Trude Fonneland -- Are Adivasis Indigenous? /Gregory D. Alles -- Is Hinduism the World’s Largest Indigenous Religion? /Arkotong Longkumer -- Literacy as Advocacy in the Donyipolo Movement of Northeast India /Claire S. Scheid -- Ethnographies Returned: The Mobilisation of Ethnographies and the Politicisation of Indigeneity in Ifugao, the Philippines /Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme -- The Beginning of a Long Journey: Maintaining and Reviving the Ancestral Religion among the Ainu in Japan /Takeshi Kimura -- Replacing ‘Religion’ with Indigenous Spirit: Grounding Australian Indigenous Identity in Wider Worlds /Steve Bevis -- Of Ruins and Revival: Heritage Formation and Khoisan Indigenous Identity in Post-apartheid South Africa /Duane Jethro -- Global Intentions and Local Conflicts: The Rise and Fall of Ambuya Juliana in Zimbabwe1 /James L. Cox -- Afterword: The Study of Religion and the Discourses of Indigeneity /Thomas A. Tweed.
Extremely distant and distinct indigenous communities have over recent decades become more like themselves and more like each other – a paradox prevalent globally but inadequately explained by established analytical frames, particularly with regard to religion. Addressing this rich and unfolding context, the Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) engages a wide variety of locations and perspectives. Drawing upon the efforts of a diverse group of scholars working at the intersection of indigenous studies and religious studies, this volume includes a programmatic introduction that argues for new ways of conceptualizing the field of indigenous religion(s), numerous case study-based examples, and an Afterword by Thomas Tweed
ISBN:9004346716
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004346710