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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... ancient religions, complex beliefs and rituals that can be traced back long before the arrival of European settlers. At the same time, many more Americans with little or no Native heritage believe that they too are following the paths ...
... ancient religions, complex beliefs and rituals that can be traced back long before the arrival of European settlers. At the same time, many more Americans with little or no Native heritage believe that they too are following the paths ...
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... ancient kivas and dancing grounds. (Though this was not entirely impossible: as early as the 1930s, one long-enduring white “tribe” of Arizona re-enactors, the Smokis, actually did construct its own imitation ritual village, complete ...
... ancient kivas and dancing grounds. (Though this was not entirely impossible: as early as the 1930s, one long-enduring white “tribe” of Arizona re-enactors, the Smokis, actually did construct its own imitation ritual village, complete ...
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... ancient practices unite the powers of earth and sky. Of course, the appropriation of these Native ideas has been anything but straightforward, since these are fitted into a larger cultural pattern of esoteric and New Age thought ...
... ancient practices unite the powers of earth and sky. Of course, the appropriation of these Native ideas has been anything but straightforward, since these are fitted into a larger cultural pattern of esoteric and New Age thought ...
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... ancient Israel, how could it be presented as superior to the legends and tales of the Navajo or the Cherokee? Myths are myths.18 Meanwhile, globalization created a new awareness of other religions. At the World's Parliament of Religions ...
... ancient Israel, how could it be presented as superior to the legends and tales of the Navajo or the Cherokee? Myths are myths.18 Meanwhile, globalization created a new awareness of other religions. At the World's Parliament of Religions ...
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... ancient glories of Mesa Verde, the enduring mysteries of the Shalako ceremonial at Zuñi, or the Hopi Snake Dance. Indian cultures and religions were by the 1920s proving highly attractive products for marketing and merchandising, for ...
... ancient glories of Mesa Verde, the enduring mysteries of the Shalako ceremonial at Zuñi, or the Hopi Snake Dance. Indian cultures and religions were by the 1920s proving highly attractive products for marketing and merchandising, for ...
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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