This volume brings together a group of articles concerned with ways of approaching Indigenous religions, focusing on the concepts of "place", "language" and "community" through case studies, fieldwork, literature and theories.
Introduction to Volume I 1. Indigenous religion(s) as an analytical category 2. Toward a scholarship of liberation: Arvind Sharma’s A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion 3. Guesthood as ethical decolonising research method Part 1: Place 4. Dreaming ecology: beyond the between 5. “People speaking silently to themselves”: An examination of Keith Basso’s philosophical speculations on “sense of place” in Apache cultures 6. The making of a sacred mountain: Meanings of nature and sacredness in Sápmi and northern Norway 7. Indigenising in a globalised world: The re-seeding of belonging to lands 8. Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!) 9. U.S. government burdens on the exercise of traditional religions: two cases provide conflicting interpretations Part 2: Language 10. “We are guaranteed freedom”: Pueblo Indians and the category of religion in the 1920s 11. The mystery of language: N. Scott Momaday, an appreciation 12. O’odham songscapes: journeys to Magdalena 13. A trickster tale about integrating indigenous knowledge in university-based programs 14. Conversing with some chickadees: cautious acts of ontological translation Part 3: Community 15. Authenticity, invention, articulation: theorizing contemporary Hawaiian traditions from the outside 16. Mesoamerican women’s indigenous spirituality: decolonizing religious beliefs 17. The truth of experience and its communication: reflections on Mapuche epistemology 18. Umbanda and hybridity 19. “Our ancestors paddle with us”: Chumash and Makah Indian “canoe culture” 20. Casting timeshadows: pleasure and sadness of moving among nomadic reindeer herders in north-east Siberia
