Beyond primitivism : indigenous religious traditions and modernity / / edited by Jacob K. Olupona

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 200/.9
• Soggetto topico: Indigenous peoples - Religion
• Altri autori: OluponaJacob K <1951-> (Jacob Kehinde)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. Lai -- Popular religions and modernity in Japan / Michio Araki -- Rethinking indigenous religious traditions: the case of the Ainu / Katarina V. Sjoberg -- Korean shamans and the definition of "religion": a view from the grass roots / Laurel Kendall -- Mandaya myth, memory, and the heroic religious tradition: between Islam and Christianity / Aram A. Yengoyan -- The Vaddas: representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka / Gananath Obeyesekere -- ; PART IV. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS -- On wondering about wonder: Melanesians and the cargo / Garry W. Trompf -- Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia / Mary N. MacDonald -- The Hawaiian lei on a voyage through modernities: a study in post-contact religion / Steven J. Friesen.
• Sommario/riassunto: At a time when local traditions across the world are forcibly colliding with global culture, this work explores the future of indigenous religions as they encounter modernity and globalisation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond primitivism
• ISBN: 1-280-02489-5; 0-203-63450-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822981103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II