Ethnic Tribal category: 190 books
Way of the Bushman
Spiritual Teachings and Practices of the Kalahari Ju/’hoansi
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
The first comprehensive presentation of the core teachings of the Kalahari Bushmen as told by the Tribal Elders
• Reveals how the Bushmen are able to receive direct transmissions of God’s love for healing and spiritual transformation
• Explores tribal legends and teaching tales,...
Globalisation
The Missing Roads of Tribal Spark from Bidisa - Vol. X
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The book Globalization: The Missing Roads of Tribal's is an outcome of sincere efforts of the author who has taken keen pain to edit twenty eight articles of descriptive, explanatory, exploratory, analytical and theoretical nature written by scholars of national and international repute. The volume...
From the First Rising Sun
The Real First Part of the Prehistory of the Cherokee People and Nation According to Oral Traditions, Legends, and Myths
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
While in medical school (which I did not have the privilege of completing), once a week we had a small group discussion class called Focus On Problems. Each group had a leader, a member of the medical school staff or someone closely associated with the school, usually an MD or Ph.D. Our group leader...
Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature
BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences?
Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks, Egyptians, and Ethiopians?
Looking at the neglected issue of race brings valuable new perspectives to the study of the ancient...
Ethnicity and Religion
Intersections and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Religion has regained political prominence in the twenty first century and not least for the manner in which it intersects with ethnicity. Many ethnic conflicts have a strong religious dimension, and religion appears as a powerful force for mobilisation, solidarity and violence. Religion and ethnicity...
by Swain Wodening
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
A book detailing the beliefs, practices, and mindset of Theodish Belief. "Þéodisc Geléafa 'The Belief of the Tribe'" dispels many of the myths surrounding Theodish Belief, and details the reality. It covers topics such as why to be tribal, the advantages of tribal Heathenry, the mechanics behind a theod, as well as the major rites. This is a must have book on Theodism.
Nagô Grandma and White Papa
Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
Dantas compares the formation...
by James H. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984,...
Tradition, Performance, and Religion in Native America
Ancestral Ways, Modern Selves
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In contemporary Indian Country, many of the people who identify as "American Indian" fall into the "urban Indian" category: away from traditional lands and communities, in cities and towns wherein the opportunities to live one's identity as Native can be restricted, and even more...
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The sacred formulas and rituals here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war,...
Many Colors
Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history. By 2050, white Americans will no longer comprise a majority of the population. Instead, they'll be the largest minority group in a country made up entirely of minorities, followed by Hispanic Americans, African...
by Orunmila's Servant
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
As an English-language manual for IFA priests that provides important translations for the Odus, Orunmila’s Words Don’t Touch the Floor: IFA Odu Synthesis stands as a rarity in the IFA religion. Religious workers have few English resources, and the creative approach taken in this book will heighten...
Balancing the World
Contemporary Maya "ajqijab" in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In Balancing the World, the author illuminates what an ajq’ij, or «daykeeper», is by presenting material he collected in a series of interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality. Frequently labeled as Maya priests, shamans, spiritual guides, or even witches, the men and women called ajq’ijab...