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Crow Jesus - Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging (Paperback)
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Crow Jesus - Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging (Paperback)
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Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow
Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and
Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new
and richly varied religious identity. In this collection of
narratives, fifteen members of the Apsaalooke (Crow) Nation in
southeastern Montana and three non-Native missionaries to the
reservation describe how Christianity has shaped their lives, their
families, and their community through the years. Among the speakers
are elders and young people, women and men, pastors and laypeople,
devout traditionalists and skeptics of the indigenous cultural way.
Taken together, the narratives reveal the startling variety and
sharp contradictions that exist in Native Christian devotion among
Crows today, from Pentecostal Peyotists to Sun-Dancing Catholics to
tongues-speaking Baptists in the sweat lodge. Editor Mark
Clatterbuck also offers a historical overview of Christianity's
arrival, growth, and ongoing influence in Crow Country, with
special attention to Christianity's relationship to traditional
ceremonies and indigenous ways of seeing the world. In Crow Jesus,
Clatterbuck explores contemporary Native Christianity by listening
as indigenous voices narrate their own stories on their own terms.
His collection tells the larger story of a tribe that has adopted
Christian beliefs and practices in such a way that simple,
unqualified designations of religious belonging - whether
""Christian"" or ""Sun Dancer"" or ""Peyotist"" - are seldom, if
ever, adequate.
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