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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... Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion (Fortress Press, 1991). From 1991 to 1996 he was Director of the Research Center for Black Studies and Professor of History of Religions at the University of California, Santa ...
... symbols from (previously) disparate codes or frameworks of meaning." A popular example is "zennis," combining Zen and tennis. The diversity of these views reflects the existence of multiple "modernities." In China, India, the Caribbean ...
... symbols, and rituals through which a significant proportion of Jews form and express their self-understanding as Jews, setting the terms and the limits of contemporary Jewish discourse. Modernity and methodology Rooted in the ...
... symbols, amenable to description in linguistic terms; rather, it represents a system of relationships among individuals and the long-standing memory of the collective over many generations. Affirming John Mohawk's thesis, Jocks observes ...
... symbols, and tribal identity through access to their sacred mountains in California. McCarthy argues for these rights in her chapter entitled "Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana." She ...
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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