Authors: Jr. Deloria
ISBN-13: 9781555914981, ISBN-10: 1555914985
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: 30th Anniversary
Vine Deloria Jr., was a leading Native American scholar, whose research, writings, and teaching have encompassed history, law, religious studies, and political science. He is the former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians.
The seminal work on Native religious views, asking questions about our species and our ultimate fate.
Deloria, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, offers a revised edition of his 1972 study of Native American religion. (Mar.)
Foreword | ||
Foreword | ||
Introduction | ||
Ch. 1 | The Indian movement | 1 |
Ch. 2 | The Indians of the American imagination | 23 |
Ch. 3 | The religious challenge | 45 |
Ch. 4 | Thinking in time and space | 61 |
Ch. 5 | The problem of creation | 77 |
Ch. 6 | The concept of history | 97 |
Ch. 7 | The spatial problem of history | 113 |
Ch. 8 | Origin of religion | 133 |
Ch. 9 | Natural and hybrid peoples | 149 |
Ch. 10 | Death and religion | 165 |
Ch. 11 | Human personality | 185 |
Ch. 12 | The group | 203 |
Ch. 13 | Christianity and contemporary American culture | 219 |
Ch. 14 | Tribal religions and contemporary American culture | 237 |
Ch. 15 | The aboriginal world and Christian history | 257 |
Ch. 16 | Sacred places and moral responsibility | 271 |
Ch. 17 | Religion today | 287 |
Appendices | 297 | |
Bibliography | 307 | |
Index | 313 |