Dream catchers : how mainstream America discovered native spirituality /

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Jenkins offers an account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. He charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considerin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Indians > Religion > Influence.
Peuples autochtones > Religion > Influence.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Religion.
Religion
Spiritualität
Spiritualiteit.
Indianen.
Culturele invloeden.
America > Religion.
Amérique > Religion.
America.
USA
Indianer.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Terminology
  • Haunting America
  • Heathen Darkness
  • Discovering Native Religion, 1860-1920
  • Pilgrims from the Vacuum, 1890-1920
  • Crisis in Red Atlantis, 1914-1925
  • Brave New Worlds, 1925-1950
  • Before the New Age, 1920-1960
  • Vision Quests, 1960-1980
  • The Medicine Show
  • Thinking Tribal Thoughts
  • Returning the Land
  • Conclusion: Real Religion?

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