Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity

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Jacob Kẹhinde Olupona
Psychology Press, 2004 - 348 páginas

What role do indigenous religions play in today's world? Beyond Primitivism is a complete appraisal of indigenous religions - faiths integrally connected to the cultures in which they originate, as distinct from global religions of conversion - as practised across America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific today. At a time when local traditions across the world are colliding with global culture, it explores the future of indigenous faiths as they encounter modernity and globalization. Beyond Primitivism argues that indigenous religions are not irrelevant in modern society, but are dynamic, progressive forces of continuing vitality and influence. Including essays on Haitian vodou, Korean shamanism and the Sri Lankan 'Wild Man', the contributors reveal the relevance of native religions to millions of believers worldwide, challenging the perception that indigenous faiths are vanishing from the face of the globe.

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Introduction
1
Do Jews make good Protestants? The crosscultural study of ritual
23
Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes
37
Friedrich Max Müller indigenous
71
some reflections from
89
resistance and change
99
Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western
111
concealed narratives
128
Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous
181
unmasking the neoarchaic
200
Popular religions and modernity in Japan
214
a view from
245
representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka
272
Melanesians and the cargo
297
Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia
314
Index
343

religious and other
149
New Yorks Haitian
164

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