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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... Movement, AIM, retains the Indian name. With due awareness of the possible difficulties, I will therefore be using the term “Indian.” Other terms are more debatable. In recent years, writers on American Indian matters have tried to take ...
... Movement, AIM, retains the Indian name. With due awareness of the possible difficulties, I will therefore be using the term “Indian.” Other terms are more debatable. In recent years, writers on American Indian matters have tried to take ...
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... movement of sympathy is obvious fifty years previously. White Americans before the 1960s did not simply dismiss Native religion as devil worship, only to achieve sudden enlightenment when books like Black Elk Speaks and the Book of 3 ...
... movement of sympathy is obvious fifty years previously. White Americans before the 1960s did not simply dismiss Native religion as devil worship, only to achieve sudden enlightenment when books like Black Elk Speaks and the Book of 3 ...
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... movement. The degree of interest or commitment varies enormously, from people who assume Native identities and wholeheartedly espouse Native spirituality as a religion, to those who just read avidly in the area. Perhaps millions graze ...
... movement. The degree of interest or commitment varies enormously, from people who assume Native identities and wholeheartedly espouse Native spirituality as a religion, to those who just read avidly in the area. Perhaps millions graze ...
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... movement. In each era, such movements became popular because they capitalized on powerful social and intellectual trends. At the start of the twentieth century, as at its end, women played a critical role in the new esoteric movements ...
... movement. In each era, such movements became popular because they capitalized on powerful social and intellectual trends. At the start of the twentieth century, as at its end, women played a critical role in the new esoteric movements ...
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... the end of the 1970s, a time of apocalyptic war fears and renewed urban crises. These social and political stresses provide the essential context for understanding the emergence of the New Age movement 18 Dream Catchers.
... the end of the 1970s, a time of apocalyptic war fears and renewed urban crises. These social and political stresses provide the essential context for understanding the emergence of the New Age movement 18 Dream Catchers.
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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