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Amerindian Rebirth

Author : Canadian Anthropology Society. Meeting
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802077035
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Amerindian Rebirth written by Canadian Anthropology Society. Meeting and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day. Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Huron eschatology, Winnebago ideology, varying forms of Inuit belief, and concepts of rebirth found among subarctic natives and Northwest Coast peoples. The closing chapters address the genesis and anthropological study of Amerindian reincarnation. In addition, the possibility of evidence for the actuality of rebirth is addressed. Amerindian Rebirth will further our understanding of concepts of self-identity, kinship, religion, cosmology, resiliency, and change among native North American peoples

Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians

Author : Åke Hultkrantz
Publisher : Stockholm : Ethnographical Museum of Sweden
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians written by Åke Hultkrantz and published by Stockholm : Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. This book was released on 1953 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians

Author : Warren Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians written by Warren Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul Journeys, Metamorphoses, and Near-Death Experiences. This book provides an in-depth look at spiritual experiences about which very little has been written. Belief in reincarnation exists not only in India but in most small tribal societies throughout the world, including many Indian groups in North America. The stories and commentary presented here are well researched and drawn from anthropological records and other reliable sources of information. Learn about a Winnebago shaman's initiation, the Cherokee's Orpheus myth, the story of "A Journey to the Skeleton House" from the Hopi, the Inuit man who lived the lives of all animals, the Ghost Dance, and other extraordinary accounts.

Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians

Author : Aake Hultkrantz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians written by Aake Hultkrantz and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Religions of the American Indians

Author : Åke Hultkrantz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520026537
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Religions of the American Indians written by Åke Hultkrantz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the religions of American Indians covers tribal religions and religions of the American high culture.

The Wisdom of the Native Americans

Author : Kent Nerburn
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 157731297X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of the Native Americans written by Kent Nerburn and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teachings of the Native Americans provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning. Taken from writings, orations, and recorded observations of life, this book selects the best of Native American wisdom and distills it to its essence in short, digestible quotes — perhaps even more timely now than when they were first written. In addition to the short passages, this edition includes the complete Soul of an Indian, as well as other writings by Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman), one of the great interpreters of American Indian thought, and three great speeches by Chiefs Joseph, Seattle, and Red Jacket.

A Cultural History of the Soul

Author : Kocku von Stuckrad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553579
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the Soul written by Kocku von Stuckrad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture—from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines a fascination spanning philosophy, the sciences, the arts, and the study of religion, as well as occultism and spiritualism, against the backdrop of the emergence of experimental psychology. He then explores how and why the United States witnessed a flowering of ideas about the soul in popular culture and spirituality in the latter half of the century. Von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements—ranging from Ernest Renan, Martin Buber, and Carl Gustav Jung to the Esalen Institute, deep ecology, and revivals of shamanism, animism, and paganism to Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Harry Potter franchise. Revealing how the soul remains central to a culture that is only seemingly secular, this book casts new light on the place of spirituality, religion, and metaphysics in Europe and North America today.

Monograph series

Author : Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Monograph series written by Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

Author : Jan Bremmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219354
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Early Greek Concept of the Soul written by Jan Bremmer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gradually this concept of two kinds of souls was replaced by the idea of a single soul. In exploring Greek ideas of human souls as well as those of plants and animals, Bremmer illuminates an important stage in the genesis of the Greek mind.

Native American Stories

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555910945
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Native American Stories written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.

Spirit Wars

Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520923430
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Wars written by Ronald Niezen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-08-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles for native people's spiritual integrity and freedom. Each chapter deals with a specific dimension of the relationship between native peoples and non-native institutions, and together these topics yield a new understanding of the forces directed against the underpinnings of native cultures.

Encyclopedia of Native American Healing

Author : William S. Lyon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393317350
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Native American Healing written by William S. Lyon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for ease of use with maps, a detailed subject index, an extensive bibliography, and cross references, this book is sure to fascinate anyone interested in Native American culture and heritage.

Renewing the World

Author : Howard L. Harrod
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545790
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Renewing the World written by Howard L. Harrod and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable resource for anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and western historians who wish to better understand ritual life in the Plains region. —Western Historical Quarterly "Harrod's discussion of kinship and reciprocity in Northwest Plains cosmology contains valuable insight into Native American worldview, and his emphasis on the moral dimension of ritual process is a major addition to the too-often ignored subject of Native American moral life." —Journal of Religion "Includes the major works on Blackfoot, Crow, Cheyennes, and Arapaho religion, the works to which anyone who wishes to understand the religious life of these tribes must continue to turn." —Choice "Plains people, Harrod suggests, refracted nature and conceived an environmental ethic through a metaphor of kinship. He is particularly skillful in characterizing the ambiguity Plains people expressed at the necessity of killing and eating their animal kin. Renewing the World also contributes to another new and uncultivated science we might call 'ecology of mind'." —Great Plains Quarterly

The Study of Religion in Sweden

Author : Henrik Bogdan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350413305
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Study of Religion in Sweden written by Henrik Bogdan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersection of national and social forces shape the study of religion in specific countries and contexts. It traces the establishment of the study of religions as an integrated part of Higher Education in Sweden and it critically examines the development of the most significant disciplines, themes and questions that form Religious Studies in Sweden. Demonstrating the interconnection between nationality and the formation of the academic study of religion, the book explores how Sweden is often described as the most secularised country in the world, yet the study of religions in Sweden has a long, rich, and diverse history. The book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of religions, and bring together the voices of 30 scholars.

Being Scioto Hopewell: Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Author : Christopher Carr
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030449173
Total Pages : 1564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Being Scioto Hopewell: Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective written by Christopher Carr and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 1564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in two volumes, breathes fresh air empirically, methodologically, and theoretically into understanding the rich ceremonial lives, the philosophical-religious knowledge, and the impressive material feats and labor organization that distinguish Hopewell Indians of central Ohio and neighboring regions during the first centuries CE. The first volume defines cross-culturally, for the first time, the “ritual drama” as a genre of social performance. It reconstructs and compares parts of 14 such dramas that Hopewellian and other Woodland-period peoples performed in their ceremonial centers to help the soul-like essences of their deceased make the journey to an afterlife. The second volume builds and critiques ten formal cross-cultural models of “personhood” and the “self” and infers the nature of Scioto Hopewell people’s ontology. Two facets of their ontology are found to have been instrumental in their creating the intercommunity alliances and cooperation and gathering the labor required to construct their huge, multicommunity ceremonial centers: a relational, collective concept of the self defined by the ethical quality of the relationships one has with other beings, and a concept of multiple soul-like essences that compose a human being and can be harnessed strategically to create familial-like ethical bonds of cooperation among individuals and communities. The archaeological reconstructions of Hopewellian ritual dramas and concepts of personhood and the self, and of Hopewell people’s strategic uses of these, are informed by three large surveys of historic Woodland and Plains Indians’ narratives, ideas, and rites about journeys to afterlives, the creatures who inhabit the cosmos, and the nature and functions of soul-like essences, coupled with rich contextual archaeological and bioarchaeological-taphonomic analyses. The bioarchaeological-taphonomic method of l’anthropologie de terrain, new to North American archaeology, is introduced and applied. In all, the research in this book vitalizes a vision of an anthropology committed to native logic and motivation and skeptical of the imposition of Western world views and categories onto native peoples.

World Faiths

Author : S.A. Nigosian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134913502X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book World Faiths written by S.A. Nigosian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Faiths is a brief introduction to the major world religions. The book provides detailed coverage of the historical development of different religious traditions, and, for each religion, presents issues of faith from the perspective of the believer.

Pagan Theology

Author : Michael York
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814797024
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Pagan Theology written by Michael York and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pagan Theology, Michael York situates Paganism—one of the fastest-growing spiritual orientations in the West—as a world religion. He provides an introduction to, and expansion of, the concept of Paganism and provides an overview of Paganism's theological perspective and practice. He demonstrates it to be a viable and distinguishable spiritual perspective found around the world today in such forms as Chinese folk religion, Shinto, tribal religions, and neo-Paganism in the West. While adherents to many of these traditions do not use the word “pagan” to describe their beliefs or practices, York contends that there is an identifiable position possessing characteristics and understandings in common for which the label “pagan” is appropriate. After outlining these characteristics, he examines many of the world's major religions to explore religious behaviors in other religions which are not themselves pagan, but which have pagan elements. In the course of examining such behavior, York provides rich and lively descriptions of religions in action, including Buddhism and Hinduism. Pagan Theology claims Paganism’s place as a world religion, situating it as a religion, a behavior, and a theology.