Native Religions and Cultures of North America

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

"Those who teach courses in Native American religious traditions know the difficulty of finding quality books that deal in concise yet reliable fashion with a number of tribal traditions and are suitable for use in the classroom. In this volume, Lawrence Sullvan seeks to help fill this lacuna. It should be easily adoptable." --Jace Weaver, JAAR, June 2002

• Introduction; Lawrence Sullivan; 1. Renewal as Discourse and Discourse as Renewal in Native Northwestern California; Thomas Buckley; 2. Traditional Ways and Contemporary Vitality: Absaroke/Crow; John A. Grim; 3. Rebalancing the World in the Contradictions of History: Creek/Mukogee; Joel W. Martin; 4. Wiping the Tears: Lakota Religion in the Twenty-first century; William K. Powers; 5. The Continuous Renewal of Sacred Religions: Navajo Religion; Trudy Griffin-Pierce; 6. In the Space between Earth and Sky: Contemporary Mescalero Apache; Ceremonialism; Ines Talamantez; 7. Synchretism, Revival, and reinvention: Tlingit Religion Pre- and Postcontact; Richard Dauenhauer; 8. Eye of the Dance: Spiritual Life of the Central Yup'ik Eskimos; Ann Feinup-Riordan; 9. Images of the Sacred in Native North American Literature; Franco Meli