Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and ModernityJacob K. Olupona Routledge, 2004 M02 24 - 364 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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... Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the U.S. Constitution (Clear Light Publications, 1992). Gananath Obeyesekere is Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department, Princeton University. He is the author of The Work of Culture ...
... lands, the destruction of ancient empires, and economic hegemony, to the sacrilege of a golf course constructed over sacred burial mounds or the discarded debris of the Second World War, interpreted by Pacific Islanders as signs of the ...
... land to gain economic benefits. Indigenous traditions then become an economic commodity, especially based on a touristic economy. One is reminded here of similar commercializations of indigenous traditions, such as African traditions in ...
... land from the economic incursions of modernity. However, rural sociologists and community developers are struggling to help indigenous communities gain skills to withstand or to compete with the invasions of modernity, invasions that ...
... land and resources. As evidence for his thesis, Araki emphasizes four eras in which religious movements were linked to modernization and modernity. The first era occurred at the beginning of the Meiji period. A group of popular ...
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Do Jews make good Protestants? The crosscultural study of ritual | 23 |
Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes | 37 |
Friedrich Max Miiller indigenous | 71 |
some reflections from | 89 |
Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western | 111 |
concealed narratives | 128 |
religious and other | 149 |
New Yorks Haitian | 164 |
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 |
Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous | 181 |
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