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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... popular views of Native American spirituality. Though the process of toleration and dialogue between any of the major religions has been slow, gradual, and often depressing, many Christians historically faced special difficulties in ...
... popular views of Native American spirituality. Though the process of toleration and dialogue between any of the major religions has been slow, gradual, and often depressing, many Christians historically faced special difficulties in ...
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... popular culture.3 Just as significant, though less noticed, are the reinventions of Native religious and spiritual traditions. As conceived by the non-Native public, Native spirituality has changed kaleidoscopically over time, mirroring ...
... popular culture.3 Just as significant, though less noticed, are the reinventions of Native religious and spiritual traditions. As conceived by the non-Native public, Native spirituality has changed kaleidoscopically over time, mirroring ...
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... popular and official, and the disasters of the reservation system make for a grim story. Yet white opinions were far from consistent, and pro-Indian attitudes, even idealization, can be traced back much further than is popularly ...
... popular and official, and the disasters of the reservation system make for a grim story. Yet white opinions were far from consistent, and pro-Indian attitudes, even idealization, can be traced back much further than is popularly ...
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... 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-playing, as ...
... 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-playing, as ...
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... popular image of Indians has rarely been too much troubled by inconvenient realities, and religious matters are no exception. The white portrait of Indians has changed over time with minimal reference to the lived realities of those ...
... popular image of Indians has rarely been too much troubled by inconvenient realities, and religious matters are no exception. The white portrait of Indians has changed over time with minimal reference to the lived realities of those ...
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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