Introduction / Jacob K. Olupona -- ; PART I. MODERNITY AND METHODOLOGY -- Do Jews make good Protestants? The cross-cultural study of ritual / Naomi Janowitz -- Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes of indigenous religions in the academic study of religion / Armin W. Geertz -- "Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Muller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion / David Chidester -- A postcolonial meaning of religion: some reflections from the indigenous world / Charles H. Long -- Saami responses to Christianity: resistance and change / Hakan Rydving -- ; PART II. THE AMERICAS -- Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western discourse on religion / John C. Mohawk -- Guidelines for the study of Mesoamerican religious traditions / Alfredo Lopez Austin -- Jaguar Christians in the contact zone: concealed narratives in the histories of religions in the Americas / David Carrasco -- Modernity, resistance, and the Iroquois Longhouse people / Chris Jocks -- "He, not they, best protected the village": religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala / Bruce Lincoln -- Vodou in the "Tenth Department": New York's Haitian community / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana / Helen McCarthy -- ; PART III. AFRICA AND ASIA -- Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- The Earth Mother Scripture: unmasking the neo-archaic / Whalen W. |