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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... practice their ancient religions, complex beliefs and rituals that can be traced back long before the arrival of European settlers. At the same time, many more Americans with little or no Native heritage believe that they too are ...
... practice their ancient religions, complex beliefs and rituals that can be traced back long before the arrival of European settlers. At the same time, many more Americans with little or no Native heritage believe that they too are ...
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... practices was at least beginning even during the worst years of American maltreatment of its Native peoples, a ... practice, and a few white Americans praised these traditions, even exalting them above Christianity. Though the fashion ...
... practices was at least beginning even during the worst years of American maltreatment of its Native peoples, a ... practice, and a few white Americans praised these traditions, even exalting them above Christianity. Though the fashion ...
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... practices unite the powers of earth and sky. Of course, the appropriation of these Native ideas has been anything but straightforward, since these are fitted into a larger cultural pattern of esoteric and New Age thought. Ironically ...
... practices unite the powers of earth and sky. Of course, the appropriation of these Native ideas has been anything but straightforward, since these are fitted into a larger cultural pattern of esoteric and New Age thought. Ironically ...
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... practices of that tiny minority carries many implications for mainstream American religion past and present, and for the legal environment in which it has operated. It was through interacting with Native religions that American ...
... practices of that tiny minority carries many implications for mainstream American religion past and present, and for the legal environment in which it has operated. It was through interacting with Native religions that American ...
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... practices, and that effort proceeded virtually unopposed. Only as late as the 1920s was there any serious suggestion that principles of religious liberty ought to apply to Indian issues. Between 1922 and 1924, an official attempt to ...
... practices, and that effort proceeded virtually unopposed. Only as late as the 1920s was there any serious suggestion that principles of religious liberty ought to apply to Indian issues. Between 1922 and 1924, an official attempt to ...
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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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