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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... Practices in Late Antiquity (Penn State University Press, 2002). Chris Jocks is a member of the faculty, Native American Studies, Dartmouth College. Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan is Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York ...
... practice of indigenous religious tradition. Despite these gains, there remains today a significant and arbitrary bias in Western religious scholarship that ignores "indigenous" religions in their own right. Current academic scholarship ...
... practices. Likewise, the question of modernity leads to further speculation regarding the nature of tradition itself. How static is tradition in the face of the challenges of modernity? The very notions of time, progress, and the ...
... practice transmitted from one generation to another and accepted as authoritative or deferred to, without argument."11 Gyekeye defines tradition as "any cultural product that was created or pursued by past generations and that, having ...
... practices often conflict with indigenous traditions. Likewise, modernity is associated with causality and empirical observation. However, African and other cultures, for example, view causality as a function of spiritual and mystical ...
Contenido
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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