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Native Religions and Cultures of North America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Native Religions and Cultures of North America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-03-28
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.

Writing American Indian Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Writing American Indian Music

This edition explores the history of musical contact, interaction, and exchange between American Indians and Euramericans, as documented in musical transcriptions, notations, and arrangements. The volume contributes to an understanding of American music that reflects our cultural reality, depicting reciprocal influences among Native Americans, scholars, composers, and educators, and illustrating consequences of those encounters for American musical life in general. Culled from a published record of over 8,000 songs, the edition contains 116 musical examples reproduced in facsimile. Included in the volume are the earliest attempts to represent tribal music in European notation, archetypal tra...

In Our Own Voices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 570

In Our Own Voices

A rich collection of first-person renderings that both enhances and challenges traditional narratives of American religious life.

Teaching Religion and Healing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

Teaching Religion and Healing

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Religions of the United States in Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Religions of the United States in Practice

Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 2 explores faith through action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people--praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while other texts describe more spontaneous religious actions. Because religious practices also take place in the imagination, dreams, visions, and fictional accounts are also included....

Reading Native American Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Reading Native American Women

This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss the points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. Individual contributors articulate their positions around issues such as identity, community, sovereignty, culture, and representation. This engaging volume crystallizes the myriad realities that inform the authors' intellectual work, and clarifies the sources of inspiration for their roles as individuals and indigenous intellectuals, reaffirming their paramount commitment to their communities and Nations. It will be of great value to Native writers as well as instructors and students in Native American studies, women's studies, anthropology, cultural studies, literature, and writing and composition.

Religion and Culture in Native America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Religion and Culture in Native America

Religion and Culture in Native America provides a contemporary and comprehensive introduction to the variety of Native religious and cultural practices in North America.

Traces of the Spirit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Traces of the Spirit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-07-01
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Sylvan examines the religious dimensions of popular music subcultures, charting the influence and religious aspects of popular music in mainstream culture today.

Bodied Mindfulness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Bodied Mindfulness

“I see spirituality and social change to be integrally related to each other. I believe that liberation efforts that are supported by spiritual experiences of integration promote human dignity as well as social equality.” Bodied Mindfulness combines spiritual, social and analytical perspectives to explore topics central to women’s development: spirituality, women’s bodies, cultural constructions of women’s sexuality in language, sexual ethics, the sexual contract in politics and at work, and the relation between nature and culture. It is Tomm’s deeply held conviction that women need to bring a vital spirituality to feminist social criticism in order to resolve these issues and in...

Indigenous Women and Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Indigenous Women and Violence

Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice. Taking on the issues of our times, Indigenous Women and Violence calls for the deepening of collaborative ethnographies through community engagement and performing research as an embodied experience. This book brings together settler colonialism, feminist ethno...