Beyond primitivism indigenous religious traditions and modernity /
Beyond primitivism indigenous religious traditions and modernity / [electronic resource] :
edited by Jacob K. Olupọna.
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- xvi, 348 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Do Jews make good Protestants? The cross-cultural study of ritual / Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes of indigenous religions in the academic study of religion / "Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Müller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion / A postcolonial meaning of religion: some reflections from the indigenous world / Saami responses to Christianity: resistance and change / Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western discourse on religion / Guidelines for the study of Mesoamerican religious traditions / Jaguar Christians in the contact zone: concealed narratives in the histories of religions in the Americas / Modernity, resistance, and the Iroquois Longhouse people / "He, not they, best protected the village": religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala / Vodou in the "Tenth Department": New York's Haitian community / Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana / Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study / The Earth Mother Scripture: unmasking the neo-archaic / Popular religions and modernity in Japan / Rethinking indigenous religious traditions: the case of the Ainu / Korean shamans and the definition of "religion": a view from the grass roots / Mandaya myth, memory, and the heroic religious tradition: between Islam and Christianity / The Vaddas: representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka / On wondering about wonder: Melanesians and the cargo / Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia / The Hawaiian lei on a voyage through modernities: a study in post-contact religion / Jacob K. Olupona -- Naomi Janowitz -- Armin W. Geertz -- David Chidester -- Charles H. Long -- Håkan Rydving -- John C. Mohawk -- Alfredo López Austin -- David Carrasco -- Chris Jocks -- Bruce Lincoln -- Karen McCarthy Brown -- Helen McCarthy -- Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Whalen W. Lai -- Michio Araki -- Katarina V. Sjöberg -- Laurel Kendall -- Aram A. Yengoyan -- Gananath Obeyesekere -- Garry W. Trompf -- Mary N. MacDonald -- Steven J. Friesen. PART I. MODERNITY AND METHODOLOGY -- PART II. THE AMERICAS -- PART III. AFRICA AND ASIA -- PART IV. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS --
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Indigenous peoples--Religion--Congresses.
Electronic books.
BL380 / .B49 2004
200/.9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Do Jews make good Protestants? The cross-cultural study of ritual / Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes of indigenous religions in the academic study of religion / "Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Müller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion / A postcolonial meaning of religion: some reflections from the indigenous world / Saami responses to Christianity: resistance and change / Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western discourse on religion / Guidelines for the study of Mesoamerican religious traditions / Jaguar Christians in the contact zone: concealed narratives in the histories of religions in the Americas / Modernity, resistance, and the Iroquois Longhouse people / "He, not they, best protected the village": religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala / Vodou in the "Tenth Department": New York's Haitian community / Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana / Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study / The Earth Mother Scripture: unmasking the neo-archaic / Popular religions and modernity in Japan / Rethinking indigenous religious traditions: the case of the Ainu / Korean shamans and the definition of "religion": a view from the grass roots / Mandaya myth, memory, and the heroic religious tradition: between Islam and Christianity / The Vaddas: representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka / On wondering about wonder: Melanesians and the cargo / Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia / The Hawaiian lei on a voyage through modernities: a study in post-contact religion / Jacob K. Olupona -- Naomi Janowitz -- Armin W. Geertz -- David Chidester -- Charles H. Long -- Håkan Rydving -- John C. Mohawk -- Alfredo López Austin -- David Carrasco -- Chris Jocks -- Bruce Lincoln -- Karen McCarthy Brown -- Helen McCarthy -- Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Whalen W. Lai -- Michio Araki -- Katarina V. Sjöberg -- Laurel Kendall -- Aram A. Yengoyan -- Gananath Obeyesekere -- Garry W. Trompf -- Mary N. MacDonald -- Steven J. Friesen. PART I. MODERNITY AND METHODOLOGY -- PART II. THE AMERICAS -- PART III. AFRICA AND ASIA -- PART IV. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS --
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Indigenous peoples--Religion--Congresses.
Electronic books.
BL380 / .B49 2004
200/.9