Books in the Vitality of Indigenous Religions series

Presents views, concepts and perspectives on the relationships among Indigenous Peoples and the Catholic Church. This work explores the experiences of Indigenous Peoples whose lives have been impacted by multiple forces - Christian missionaries, governmental policies, immigration and colonization, education, and assimilation and acculturation.

Contains examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes to debates about indigenous cultures and religions, and to understandings of identity and alterity in late or post-modernity. This book attempts to enrich understanding of indigenity, and of the globalized world.

Contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions.

Explores the historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. Looking at the period between 1850 and 1930, this work explores historical evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq hunting subsistence. It then situates the culture hero in the modern world of the 1990s.

The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. This book presents a cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City.

Reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually made between civilizing and converting.

Exploring religious and spiritual changes which have been taking place among Indigenous populations in Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific Islands, this book focuses on important changes in religious affiliation over the last 15 years. Drawing on both local social and political debates.

Presents a multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. This book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Religions; Indigenous Thought and Spirituality; and Christianity, Hinduism and Islam.

This book explores how certain alternative global religious groups, shamanic tourism industries and recreational drug milieus grounded in the consumption of the traditionally Amazonian psychoactive drink ayahuasca embody various challenges associated with modern societies.

Very few studies have examined the worldview of the Anishinaabeg from within the culture itself and none have explored the Anishinaabe worldview in relation to their efforts to maintain their culture in the present-day world. Focusing mainly on the Minnesota Anishinaabeg.

The study of indigenous religions has become an important academic field, particularly since the religious practices of indigenous peoples are being transformed by forces of globalization and transcontinental migration. This book will further our understanding of indigenous religions by considering key methodological issues related to defining and contextualizing the religious practices of indigenous societies, both historically and in socio-cultural situations.

Whilst there are popular ideas about which champion Aboriginal environmental knowledge, many of these are based more on romantic notions than on any detailed understanding of what might be the content of this knowledge. This book is based on less well known details of Aboriginal knowledge and presents an assessment of rituals and practices.

Capturing the narratives of indigenes, this book presents an anthology on global indigenous peoples' wisdoms and ways of knowing. It covers issues of religion, cultural self-determination, philosophy, spirituality, sacred sites, oppression, gender and the suppressed voices of women.

The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community. This book presents a multidisciplinary exploration of African Traditions in the Study of Religion, and Gendered Societies.

In this text, Ben Knighton argues that the religious aspect of Karamojong culture, with its persistent faith dimension, was one of the key factors which has enabled the Karamojong people to maintain their amazing degree of religious, political and military autonomy in the postmodern world.

The chapters in this volume advance debates about relations between humans and things, between scholars and others, and between Modern and Indigenous ontologies. Contributors to this volume bring different perspectives and approaches to bear on questions about animism, personhood, materiality, and relationality.

Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Editor Charlesworth from University of Melbourne and Deakin University, Vic and editor Howard Morphy from ANU, ACT.

This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts.

The study of indigenous religions has become an important academic field, particularly since the religious practices of indigenous peoples are being transformed by forces of globalization and transcontinental migration.

The academic study of Indigenous Religions developed historically from missiological and anthropological sources. Evaluating this assumption in the light of case studies drawn from Zimbabwe, Alaska and shamanic traditions, and in view of debates over 'primitivism', this work mounts a defence for the use of the category 'Indigenous Religions'.

This book details the interaction between the Nagas and the West, beginning with British military conquest, followed by American missionary intrusion of Naga soil, has resulted in the gradual demise of Naga culture. Consequences are still being felt in the lack of sense of direction and confusion among Nagas today.

Explores the exchange of Blackfoot 'medicine bundles' within contemporary Blackfoot culture and between the Blackfoot Peoples and Euro-Americans.

This book presents a unique anthology on global indigenous peoples' wisdoms and ways of knowing. Covering issues of religion, cultural self-determination, philosophy, spirituality, sacred sites, oppression, gender and the suppressed voices of women, the diverse global contexts across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North and South America, and Oceania are highlighted. The contributions represent heart-felt expressions of indigenous peoples from various contexts - their triumphs and struggles, their gains and losses, their reflections on the past, present, and future - telling their accounts in their own voices.