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Readings in Indigenous Religions (Hardcover)
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Readings in Indigenous Religions (Hardcover)
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Readings in Indigenous Religions brings together classic and recent
writings concerned with contemporary indigenous religions. These
significant and important works contribute both to expert
discussion of important religious and cultural issues and also to
on-going debates about improved methods of research. The inclusion
of examples of indigenous ideological, legal and fiction writing
further enhances the volume's engagement with indigenous and
scholarly perspectives, experiences and interests. Readings is
divided into four Parts: Ontology, Performance, Knowledge and Land.
Editorial introductions make explicit the links, common themes and
further ramifications of the seventeen chapters. The four chapters
in 'Ontology' argue that relationships are definitive in the
formation and maintenance of identities, and that the notion of
'the supernatural' is misleading. 'Performance' contains five
chapters that discuss various rituals and their participants,
including healing, world-making, magic and shamanising. Six
chapters in 'Knowledge' demonstrate the critical importance of
attending to indigenous modes of discourse about knowledges.
Finally, 'Land' contains two chapters that exemplify the richness
of indigenous relationships and engagements with, and knowledges
of, particular places. In addition to expert descriptions of
aspects of particular indigenous religious lifeways and worldviews,
the readings also encourage a reconsideration of academic
approaches to the study of indigenous religions. The realisation
that researchers and writers are engaged in relationships with
indigenous hosts proffers a challenge to academic methodologies
that assert objectivity and distance. New dialogical and
conversational methods of engagement promise to reconnect academia
in building more equitable relationships and a healthier world.
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