Ethnic Tribal category: 190 books
by Tom Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A large majority of the South African population adheres to some form of traditional belief and this book considers whether indigenous African religions, independent African churches, and traditional practices deserve constitutional protection and recognition by the state. It also discusses what the...
Other Backward Classes in India
A Case Study of Assam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The present book is an outcome of the in-depth study of the backward communities and backward classes in India through the primary and secondary sources. The authors of the book have made an attempt to go through the genesis of the emergence of backward classes in India and also have discussed various...
by Cobus van der Merwe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2005
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it is used the right way. That is to say to imagine or to recollect what is stored up in your top storehouse, or even to form an opinion by having your mind occupied on a certain subject combined with the information to your disposal and then conceive what is possible.
Crow Jesus
Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
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 Apsáalooke...
Then We'll Sing a New Song
African Influences on America's Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Then We'll Sing a New Song is a fascinating examination of how African religions have shaped belief and practices in America. Not just the story of the development of African American religions or the black church, this book tells the often-unrecognized, but important story of how African religions...
African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa
Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with other World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the particular religious traditions that they are transplanting on our shores, as scholars continue largely to focus instead on immigrants from Europe and Asia.
African...
Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas
The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating...
Rethinking Relations and Animism
Personhood and Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous "ontological turn", a "(re)turn to things" and a "relational turn", and also debating a "new animism". It is increasingly recognised that...
by Edward Westermarck
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Between the years of 1898 and 1926, Edward Westermarck spent a total of seven years in Morocco, visiting towns and tribes in different parts of the country, meeting local people and learning about their language and culture; his findings are noted in this two-volume set, first published in 1926. The...
Spirit of the Earth
Indian Voices on Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Often spoken at the end of a prayer, a well-known Sioux phrase affirms that “we are all related.” Similarly, the Sioux medicine man, Brave Buffalo, came to realize when he was still a boy that “the maker of all was Wakan Tanka (the Great Spirit), and . . . in order to honor him I must honor his...
The Human Face of Globalization
From Multicultural to Mestizaje
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2004
International immigration, massive migrations, economic globalization and a world-wide communications revolution have brought about a mixing of races, cultures and lifestyles unprecedented in human history. What are the implications of this phenomenon? What options present themselves…a battle of...
Roots of Haiti's Vodou-Christian Faith: African and Catholic Origins
African and Catholic Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
What are the historical reasons for the popularity of two contradictory worldviews in Haiti, Vodou and Catholicism? What elements of Vodou and Catholicism are alike, and how are they drastically different? What is the connection between indigenous African religions and Vodou? And why has religion...
by Quentin H. Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Since 1990, Quentin has studied Nicholas Black Elk’s Great Vision of the nation’s hoop and the flowering tree. From 1998 through 2004, he lectured at the College of DuPage, Illinois, presenting a study of Wovoka’s Ghost Dance and Black Elk’s Great Vision through a three-hour accredited course...