1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783666303321

Autore

Smith Huston

Titolo

A seat at the table [[electronic resource] ] : Huston Smith in conversation with Native Americans on religious freedom / / edited and with preface by Phil Cousineau ; with assistance from Gary Rhine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-36032-9

9786612360329

0-520-94091-1

1-59875-798-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CousineauPhil

RhineGary

Disciplina

323.44/2/08997073

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Religion

Freedom of religion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION THE PRIMAL RELIGIONS -- 1. THE SPIRITUAL MALAISE IN AMERICA -- 2. FIVE HUNDRED NATIONS WITHIN ONE -- 3. ECOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY -- 4. THE HOMELANDS OF RELIGION -- 5. NATIVE LANGUAGE, NATIVE SPIRITUALITY -- 6. THE TRIUMPH OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH -- 7. THE FIGHT FOR NATIVE AMERICAN PRISONERS' RIGHTS -- 8. STEALING OUR SPIRIT -- 9. THE FIGHT FOR MOUNT GRAHAM -- 10. REDEEMING THE FUTURE -- 11. THE HEALING OF INDIAN COUNTRY -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom. Their intimate, impassioned dialogues yield profound insights into one of the most striking cases of tragic irony in history: the country that prides itself on religious freedom has resolutely denied those same rights to its own indigenous people. With



remarkable erudition and curiosity-and respectfully framing his questions in light of the revelation that his discovery of Native American religion helped him round out his views of the world's religions-Smith skillfully helps reveal the depth of the speakers' knowledge and experience. American Indian leaders Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), Winona LaDuke (Anishshinaabeg), Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee), Frank Dayish, Jr. (Navajo), Charlotte Black Elk (Oglala Lakota), Douglas George-Kanentiio (Mohawk-Iroquois), Lenny Foster (Dine/Navajo), Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga), Anthony Guy Lopez (Lakota-Sioux), and Oren Lyons (Onondaga) provide an impressive overview of the critical issues facing the Native American community today. Their ideas about spirituality, politics, relations with the U.S. government, their place in American society, and the continuing vitality of their communities give voice to a population that is all too often ignored in contemporary discourse. The culture they describe is not a relic of the past, nor a historical curiosity, but a living tradition that continues to shape Native American lives.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220014603321

Autore

Stroth Fabian

Titolo

Writing Matters : Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Irene Berti, Katharina Bolle, Fanny Opdenhoff, Fabian Stroth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2017

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9783110533361

3110533367

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Collana

Materiale Textkulturen ; ; 14

Disciplina

411/.7

Soggetti

Civilization, Classical

Civilization, Medieval

Inscriptions - History

Monuments - Social aspects - History

Public spaces - Social aspects - History

Antike und Mittelalter

Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Materialität von Schrift

Präsenz von Schrift

Rezeptionspraktiken



materiality of writing

practices of reception

presence of writing

Kollektives Gedächtnis

Latein

Griechisch

Antike

Inschrift

HISTORY / Ancient / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction / Berti, Irene / Bolle, Katharina / Opdenhoff, Fanny / Stroth, Fabian -- Theoretical and Methodical Approaches Around and About Writing -- Dead Writing Matters? / Lieb, Ludger / Wagner, Ricarda -- Social Texts: How to Account for the Cultural Work of Carrier Media / Starre, Alexander -- Das synaktive Potential von Beischriften / Feraudi-Gruénais, Francisca -- Text Spaces -- Listen im öffentlichen Raum hellenistischer Städte / Berti, Irene / Kató, Péter -- Campaigning for Votes in Ancient Pompeii: Contextualizing Electoral Programmata / Viitanen, Eeva-Maria / Nissin, Laura -- Messages from a Sacred Space: The Function of the Byzantine Sanctuary Barrier Inscriptions (9th-14th centuries) / Pallis, Georgios -- Inscribed Monuments and Memory -- Writing Past and Present in Hellenistic Athens: The Honours for Demosthenes / Shear, Julia L. -- The Stele of Polybios / Melfi, Milena -- Inscribing in Columns in Fifth-Century Athens / Meyer, Elizabeth A. -- Writing Practices: Seeing, Perceiving and Acting with Inscriptions -- Text as Art? Byzantine Inscriptions and Their Display / Rhoby, Andreas -- Writing on Medieval Doors / Debiais, Vincent -- Von sichtbaren und verborgenen Signaturen an mittelalterlichen Kirchen / Keil, Wilfried E. -- Urban and Suburban Attitudes to Writing on Walls? Pompeii and Environs / Benefiel, Rebecca R. -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes steht die Frage nach der Bedeutung, die der schriftlichen Fixierung öffentlicher Botschaften wie privater Mitteilungen im öffentlichen Raum der Antike, Spätantike und Mittelalter zukam. Inschriften befanden sich - damals wie heute - auf Mauern und Wänden von Häusern und Tempeln, in Innenräumen von Kirchen, auf der Agora oder dem Forum, auf oder an öffentlich aufgestellten Bildwerken wie Statuen, Reliefs, Gemälden und Mosaiken. Die Gegenwart beschrifteter Objekte prägte und gestaltete den öffentlichen Raum, und selbst wenn die Inschriften nicht - oder nur partiell - gelesen wurden, so luden sie den Betrachter durch ihre oft extrem auffällige Präsenz doch zur Wahrnehmung und Interaktion ein. Durch den Versuch, die Artefakte in ihrem originären sozialen wie räumlichen Umfeld zu rekontextualisieren, eröffnen sich neue Deutungsperspektiven: Neben Beobachtungen zur konkreten Gestaltung des einzelnen Schriftzeugnisses gewinnen Fragen nach der räumlichen Beziehung zu benachbarten Monumenten, der Platzierung



im öffentlichen Raum und der sich damit wandelnden Rezeptionsbedingungen an Bedeutung.