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Sky Sand and Spirits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

Sky Sand and Spirits

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In the Beginning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

In the Beginning

Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the historical context of the Navajo narratives, Levy points out that Navajo society has never during its known history been either homogeneous or unchanging, and he goes on to identify in the myths persisting traditions that represent differing points of view within the society. The major transformations of the Navajo people, from a northern hunting and gathering society to a farming, then herding, then ...

Healing Ways
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Healing Ways

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Chronicles the advent of so-called "western" or "scientific" medicine in the modern era, and how Navajos adapted, but did not compromise their traditional healings ways.

Prayer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Prayer

Paying homage to prayer traditions from around the world and throughout history, this celebration of prayer covers everything from Pentacoastalist revivals to the sacred pipe to the Catholic rosary.

Upward, Not Sunwise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Upward, Not Sunwise

Upward, Not Sunwise explores an influential and growing neo-Pentecostal movement among Native Americans characterized by evangelical Christian theology, charismatic “spirit-filled” worship, and decentralized Native control. As in other global contexts, neo-Pentecostalism is spread by charismatic evangelists practicing faith healing at tent revivals.In North America, this movement has become especially popular among the Diné (Navajo), where the Oodlání (“Believers”) movement now numbers nearly sixty thousand members. Participants in this movement value their Navajo cultural identity yet maintain a profound religious conviction that the beliefs of their ancestors are tools of the de...

Native American Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Native American Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-11-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Considering Native American literature within a modernist framework, and comparing it with writers such as Woolf, Stein, T.S Eliot and Proust results in a valuable and enriching context for the selected texts.

Improvement of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384