This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.
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"Those who teach courses in Native American religious traditions know the difficulty of finding quality books that deal in concise yet reliable fashion with a number of tribal traditions and are suitable for use in the classroom. In this volume, Lawrence Sullvan seeks to help fill this lacuna. It should be easily adoptable."
—Jace Weaver, JAAR, June 2002
"An authoritative and useful addition to studies of Native American culture emphasizing spirituality as practiced in a number of tribal traditions. All general and college libraries should add this edition to their collection of reliable and readable resources on North American culture, customs, and indigenous religious practices."
—Choice, April 2001
"A well-balanced collection of essays by respected scholars. This excellent collection presents dignified and respectful views of Native American spirituality and is highly recommended for anthropology and religion collections in academic libraries."
—Library Journal, August 2000.
"The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of religion among a tremendous diversity of particular traditions, and also to the concept of 'religion' in general."
"It is fortunate for those of us who are interested in the perennial question 'what is religion?'"
—ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America), Spring 2002
—Jace Weaver, JAAR, June 2002
"An authoritative and useful addition to studies of Native American culture emphasizing spirituality as practiced in a number of tribal traditions. All general and college libraries should add this edition to their collection of reliable and readable resources on North American culture, customs, and indigenous religious practices."
—Choice, April 2001
"A well-balanced collection of essays by respected scholars. This excellent collection presents dignified and respectful views of Native American spirituality and is highly recommended for anthropology and religion collections in academic libraries."
—Library Journal, August 2000.
"The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of religion among a tremendous diversity of particular traditions, and also to the concept of 'religion' in general."
"It is fortunate for those of us who are interested in the perennial question 'what is religion?'"
—ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America), Spring 2002
About the Author
Lawrence E. Sullivan is Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.
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A wealth of insight and evenhanded perspective,
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This review is from: Native Religions and Cultures of North America: Anthropology of the Sacred (Paperback)
Expertly compiled and edited by Lawrence E. Sullivan, Native Religion And Cultures Of North America: Anthropology Of The Sacred is an impressively informative collection of essays by a variety of learned authors who discuss the religious beliefs and rituals of the Crow, Muskogee, Lakota, Navajo, Eskimo, and other Native American cultures. Each discourse is heavily researched, and presented in a scholarly fashion. A wealth of insight and evenhanded perspective make Native Religion And Cultures Of North America a welcome addition to college, library, and personal reference Native American Studies reading lists and reference collections.
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