Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native SpiritualityOxford University Press, 21.09.2004 - 320 Seiten In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. Jenkins charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis. He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty. An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, Dream Catchers offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion. |
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... Hopi Snake Dance, which to their eyes represented serpent worship of the most shocking kind. Through the first half of the twentieth century, the Snake Dance was perhaps the best-known symbol of American Indian religion, and it became a ...
... Hopi Snake Dance, which to their eyes represented serpent worship of the most shocking kind. Through the first half of the twentieth century, the Snake Dance was perhaps the best-known symbol of American Indian religion, and it became a ...
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... Hopi became popular. The New Age boom of the late twentieth century occurred when some long-familiar commodities found a new mass market. The Tribe Called Wannabe On occasion, too, recognition and respect has led to imitation or role ...
... Hopi became popular. The New Age boom of the late twentieth century occurred when some long-familiar commodities found a new mass market. The Tribe Called Wannabe On occasion, too, recognition and respect has led to imitation or role ...
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... Hopi land would know aught of the Sioux's prayer.”10 Since there is not and never has been such a thing as “Indian religion,” it should be difficult to construct simple or uniform patterns. But the popular image of Indians has rarely ...
... Hopi land would know aught of the Sioux's prayer.”10 Since there is not and never has been such a thing as “Indian religion,” it should be difficult to construct simple or uniform patterns. But the popular image of Indians has rarely ...
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... Hopi, Carlos Castaneda's Teachings of Don Juan, or Lynn Andrews's Medicine Woman—it succeeds because the author is offering an interpretation that people want to hear at a particular time. Just as Western admirers of a fantasy Tibet of ...
... Hopi, Carlos Castaneda's Teachings of Don Juan, or Lynn Andrews's Medicine Woman—it succeeds because the author is offering an interpretation that people want to hear at a particular time. Just as Western admirers of a fantasy Tibet of ...
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... Hopi Snake Dance. Indian cultures and religions were by the 1920s proving highly attractive products for marketing and merchandising, for presentation to a consumer audience with a new hunger for the primitive and authentic. The ...
... Hopi Snake Dance. Indian cultures and religions were by the 1920s proving highly attractive products for marketing and merchandising, for presentation to a consumer audience with a new hunger for the primitive and authentic. The ...
Inhalt
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3 Discovering Native Religion 18601920 | 47 |
4 Pilgrims from the Vacuum 18901920 | 65 |
5 Crisis in Red Atlantis 19141925 | 92 |
6 Brave New Worlds 19251950 | 113 |
7 Before the New Age 19201960 | 135 |
8 Vision Quests 19601980 | 154 |
9 The Medicine Show | 175 |
10 Thinking Tribal Thoughts | 197 |
11 Returning the Land | 223 |
Real Religion? | 245 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 299 |
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