Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native SpiritualityOxford University Press, 2004年9月21日 - 320 頁 In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. Jenkins charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis. He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty. An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, Dream Catchers offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion. |
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... early twentieth centuries would have to make use of Native voices themselves; and many such are available, in the form of oral history records. I do not use these materials, because they are not germane to my purpose of describing the ...
... early twentieth centuries would have to make use of Native voices themselves; and many such are available, in the form of oral history records. I do not use these materials, because they are not germane to my purpose of describing the ...
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... early settlers, Indians served that old serpent, the devil. A diabolical linkage was confirmed in the nineteenth century when travelers reported seeing the Hopi Snake Dance, which to their eyes represented serpent worship of the most ...
... early settlers, Indians served that old serpent, the devil. A diabolical linkage was confirmed in the nineteenth century when travelers reported seeing the Hopi Snake Dance, which to their eyes represented serpent worship of the most ...
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... early as the 1930s, one long-enduring white “tribe” of Arizona re-enactors, the Smokis, actually did construct its own imitation ritual village, complete with kiva and pueblo).6 Plains rituals, while no less complex in their ...
... early as the 1930s, one long-enduring white “tribe” of Arizona re-enactors, the Smokis, actually did construct its own imitation ritual village, complete with kiva and pueblo).6 Plains rituals, while no less complex in their ...
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... early twentieth century, older Protestant churches did suffer a decline of prestige. They faced new rivals, namely Roman Catholicism, and the new secular professions, which took over many social service functions that would once have ...
... early twentieth century, older Protestant churches did suffer a decline of prestige. They faced new rivals, namely Roman Catholicism, and the new secular professions, which took over many social service functions that would once have ...
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... earliest times, esoteric and metaphysical themes have always been in evidence. Since the midnineteenth century, these alternative traditions have enjoyed wide influence, often by deploying innovative means of merchandising and spiritual ...
... earliest times, esoteric and metaphysical themes have always been in evidence. Since the midnineteenth century, these alternative traditions have enjoyed wide influence, often by deploying innovative means of merchandising and spiritual ...
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3 Discovering Native Religion 18601920 | 47 |
4 Pilgrims from the Vacuum 18901920 | 65 |
5 Crisis in Red Atlantis 19141925 | 92 |
6 Brave New Worlds 19251950 | 113 |
7 Before the New Age 19201960 | 135 |
8 Vision Quests 19601980 | 154 |
9 The Medicine Show | 175 |
10 Thinking Tribal Thoughts | 197 |
11 Returning the Land | 223 |
Real Religion? | 245 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 299 |
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