Indigenous Religions

A Companion

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

Indigenous religions are the majority of the world's religions. This Companion shows how much they can contribute to a richer understanding of human identity, action and relationships. It also challenges their marginalization in the study of religions. An international team of contributors discuss representative indigenous religions from all continents in relation to significant themes. In the process they illustrate a variety of approaches to the study of religions. The Companion therefore provides a valuable resource and a provocation to a full consideration both of some of the most dynamic religions of the world and of ways in which they might be approached. The 17 chapters are divided among three parts labelled "People", "Power" and "Gifts" which encapsulate much of what is significant about a diversity of religions which are often pragmatic, multi-stranded, layered, non-dogmatic but unanalytical. They are frequently concerned with reciprocal rather than hierarchical relationships. Some challenge the obesssion with deities, showing that religions are concerned with a far broader range of relationships, many initiated and furthered by humanity not by putative "spiritual" beings.Others challenge obsessions about the afterlife or next world, showing that religions can be concerned with the pursuit of health, wealth and happiness in this world now. The possibility that this is true of all religions makes this Companion relevant to everyone interested in human religiosity today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-11-01
Mått:230 x 181 x 23 mm
Vikt:446 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780304704484

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Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK.

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"Wide-ranging...The editor, best known for his work on contemporary paganism, provides an innovative introduction, framing the essays that follow theoretically and challenging the readers' presuppositions. The essays are relatively accessible to the non-specialist and would make a useful introductory text for an undergraduate course on religions not often covered in standard 'world religions' textbooks." --Religious Studies Review

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 People: the cosmos as intersubjective - Native American other-than-human persons, Kenneth M. Morrison; native womanism -exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship, M.A. Jaimes Guerrero; shamans, Piers Vitebsicy; witchcraft and healing among the Bangwa of Cameroon, Fiona Bowie; Rattray's request -spirit possession among the Bono of West Africa, Jan G. Platvoet. Part 2 Powers: Mana and Tapu - sacred knowledge, sacred boundaries, Pater I. Mataira; magic, religion and secularity among the Azande and Nuer, Berel Dov Lerner; the dreaming in contemporary Aboriginal Australia, Lynne Hume; ecology and religion in Karuk orientations toward the land, Sean M. Connors. Part 3 Gift: art works in Aotearoa, Graham Harvey; music, art and movement among the Yoruba, Olu Taiwo; the unwieldy promise of ceremonies - the case of the Jakalteko May's dance of the conquest, Charles D. Thompson; rites of passage among the Lohorung Rai and East Nepal, Charlotte E. Hardman; gifts for the Sky Peole - animal sacrifice, head hunting and power among the Naga of Burma and Assam, Mark R. Woodward; characteristics of African indigenous religions in contemporary Zimbabwe, James L. Cox; spirituality, values and boundaries in the revitalization of a Mi'kmaq community, Raoul R. Andersen et al; touching the past, teaching ways forward - the American Indian powwow, Ten Brewer.