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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... groups have been taken as typical and representative. Today, the most powerful image is that of Plains nations such as the Lakota (Sioux), while in 1910 or 1920, the Pueblos of the Southwest utterly dominated the white consciousness ...
... groups have been taken as typical and representative. Today, the most powerful image is that of Plains nations such as the Lakota (Sioux), while in 1910 or 1920, the Pueblos of the Southwest utterly dominated the white consciousness ...
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... groups, including Spiritualism, Christian Science, Theosophy and New Thought. The emerging sects taught a new multicultural sensitivity and a respect for non-Christian spiritual traditions. Their message also appealed to the ...
... groups, including Spiritualism, Christian Science, Theosophy and New Thought. The emerging sects taught a new multicultural sensitivity and a respect for non-Christian spiritual traditions. Their message also appealed to the ...
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... group of writers and artists from the bohemian circles of Taos and Santa Fe, who saw Native Americans as the bearers of an ancient and priceless culture. Commenting on Pueblo ceremonials, artist Marsden Hartley complained that “in times ...
... group of writers and artists from the bohemian circles of Taos and Santa Fe, who saw Native Americans as the bearers of an ancient and priceless culture. Commenting on Pueblo ceremonials, artist Marsden Hartley complained that “in times ...
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... groups who symbolized primitivism and superstition, including “savages” like the Indians. Ironically, in expressing their revulsion at the religion of these supposedly primitive groups, these accounts still echoed the older contrasts ...
... groups who symbolized primitivism and superstition, including “savages” like the Indians. Ironically, in expressing their revulsion at the religion of these supposedly primitive groups, these accounts still echoed the older contrasts ...
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... groups were interrelated: Jews had their Sabbath, witches their Sabbat. For early Puritan writers, the Indians represented the dark shadow of the Christian mission into the wilderness.4 Indians, too, were in a blasphemous sense a chosen ...
... groups were interrelated: Jews had their Sabbath, witches their Sabbat. For early Puritan writers, the Indians represented the dark shadow of the Christian mission into the wilderness.4 Indians, too, were in a blasphemous sense a chosen ...
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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