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Book Religion and Hopi Life  Second Edition

Download or read book Religion and Hopi Life Second Edition written by John D. Loftin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on shamanism, death, witchcraft, myth, tricksters, and kachina initiations.

Book Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century written by John D. Loftin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion and Hopi Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : John D. Loftin
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780253341969
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Religion and Hopi Life written by John D. Loftin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on shamanism, death, witchcraft, myth, tricksters, and kachina initiations.

Book Religious Ways of Experiencing Life

Download or read book Religious Ways of Experiencing Life written by Carl Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Ways of Experiencing Life: A Global and Narrative Approach surveys world religions, using the narratives and discourses of each tradition to describe it in its own terms. Carl Olson examines each tradition’s practices, teachings, material culture, roles of women, and path to salvation, as well as the experiences of its followers. The exploration of lived experience draws out and emphasizes the plural nature of religious traditions. The volume includes chapters on all current major world religions, as well as material on ancient religions of the Mediterranean, indigenous North American and African spiritual traditions, and New Age and new religious movements. Featuring timelines and suggestions for further reading, this text will be of interest to undergraduate students seeking a broad introduction to World Religion or Lived Religion.

Book Sacred Paths of the West

Download or read book Sacred Paths of the West written by Theodore M Ludwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure. Students are encouraged to discover and explore the nature of religious experience by comparing basic themes and issues common to all religions, finding connections with their own personal experiences. By sensitively introducing descriptive material within a comparative thematic structure, this text helps students to understand how each religion provides, for its adherents, patterns and meanings that make up a full way of life.

Book Controversies in Contemporary Religion

Download or read book Controversies in Contemporary Religion written by Paul Hedges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious or spiritual beliefs underpin many controversies and conflicts in the contemporary world. Written by a range of scholarly contributors, this three-volume set provides contextual background information and detailed explanations of religious controversies across the globe. Controversies in Contemporary Religion: Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality is a three-volume set that addresses a wide variety of current religious issues, analyzing religion's role in the rise of fundamentalism, censorship, human rights, environmentalism and sustainability, sexuality, bioethics, and other questions of widespread interest. Providing in-depth context and analysis far beyond what's available in the news or online, this work will enable readers to understand the nature of and reasons for controversies in current headlines. The first volume covers theoretical and academic debates, the second looks at debates in the public square and ethical issues, while the third examines specific issues and case studies. These volumes bring detailed and careful debate of a range of controversies together in one place, including topics not often covered—for example, how religions promote or hinder social cohesion and peace, the relationship of religions to human rights, and the intersection of Buddhism and violence. Written by a range of experts that includes both established and emerging scholars, the text explains key debates in ways that are accessible and easy to understand for lay readers as well as undergraduate students researching particular issues or global religious trends.

Book Crossing and Dwelling

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  • Author : Thomas A. Tweed
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2008-03-15
  • ISBN : 0674267761
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Crossing and Dwelling written by Thomas A. Tweed and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a Cuban Catholic ritual in Miami, this book takes readers on a momentous theoretical journey toward a new understanding of religion. At this historical moment, when movement across boundaries is of critical importance for all areas of human life—from media and entertainment to economy and politics—Thomas Tweed offers a powerful vision of religion in motion, dynamic, alive with crossings and flows. A deeply researched, broadly gauged, and vividly written study of religion such as few American scholars have ever attempted, Crossing and Dwelling depicts religion in place and in movement, dwelling and crossing. Tweed considers how religion situates devotees in time and space, positioning them in the body, the home, the homeland, and the cosmos. He explores how the religious employ tropes, artifacts, rituals, and institutions to mark boundaries and to prescribe and proscribe different kinds of movements across those boundaries; and how religions enable and constrain terrestrial, corporeal, and cosmic crossings. Drawing on insights from the natural and social sciences, Tweed's work is grounded in the gritty particulars of distinctive religious practices, even as it moves toward ideas about cross-cultural patterns. At a time when scholars in many fields shy away from generalizations, this book offers a responsible way to think broadly about religion, a topic that is crucial for understanding the contemporary world. Lucid in explanations, engaging in presentation, rich in examples, Crossing and Dwelling has profound implications for the study and teaching of religion in our day.

Book People of Kituwah

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  • Author : John D. Loftin
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-04-30
  • ISBN : 0520400348
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book People of Kituwah written by John D. Loftin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Cherokee tradition, the place of creation is Kituwah, located at the center of the world and home to the most sacred and oldest of all beloved, or mother, towns. Just by entering Kituwah, or indeed any village site, Cherokees reexperience the creation of the world, when the water beetle first surfaced with a piece of mud that later became the island on which they lived. People of Kituwah is a comprehensive account of the spiritual worldview and lifeways of the Eastern Cherokee people, from the creation of the world to today. Building on vast primary and secondary materials, native and non-native, this book provides a window into not only what the Cherokees perceive and understand—their notions of space and time, marriage and love, death and the afterlife, healing and traditional medicine, and rites and ceremonies—but also how their religious life evolved both before and after the calamitous coming of colonialism. Through the collaborative efforts of John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey, this book offers an in-depth understanding of Cherokee culture and society.

Book Sun Chief

Download or read book Sun Chief written by Don C. Talayesva and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFirst published in 1942, Sun Chief is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how scholars have used the book since its publication more than seventy years ago. /div

Book Hopis and the Counterculture

Download or read book Hopis and the Counterculture written by Brian Haley and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the explosive appropriation of Indigenous identities in the 1960s. It reveals a largely unknown network of Native, non-Indian, and neo-Indian actors who spread misrepresentations of the Hopi that they created through interactions with the Hopi Traditionalist faction of the 1940s through 1980s. Significantly, many non-Hopis involved adopted Indian identities during this time, becoming "neo-Indians." Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, Hopis and the Counterculture meticulously traces the trajectories of figures such as Ammon Hennacy, Craig Carpenter, Frank Waters, and the Firesign Theatre, among others. Drawing on insights into the interplay between primitivism, radicalism, stereotyping, and identity, Haley expands on concepts from scholars such as Roy Harvey Pearce's notion of "isolated radicals" and Jonathan Friedman's observations regarding the ascendancy of primitivism amid global crises. Haley scrutinizes the roles played by non-Hopi actors and the timing behind the widespread popularization of Hopi religious practices.

Book Kitchi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alana Robson
  • Publisher : Banana Books
  • Release : 2021-01-30
  • ISBN : 9781800490680
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Kitchi written by Alana Robson and published by Banana Books. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He is forever and ever here in spirit" An adventure. A magic necklace. Brotherhood. Six-year-old Forrest feels lost now that his big brother Kitchi is no longer here. He misses him every day and clings onto a necklace that reminds him of Kitchi. One day, the necklace comes to life. Forrest is taken on a magical adventure, where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a beautiful, yet mysterious fox, who soon becomes his best friend. www.kitchithespiritfox.com

Book Canadian Climate of Mind

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  • Author : Timothy B. Leduc
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2016-05-01
  • ISBN : 0773598804
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Canadian Climate of Mind written by Timothy B. Leduc and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global. A Canadian Climate of Mind presents stories that emerge from the waters, lands, and climate of Canada, and which have the potential to renew a compassionate energy for changing human relations with each other and with our world. The turbulent effects of climate change are popularly discussed in the modern language of scientific knowledge, political policies, economic mechanisms, and technological innovation. While there is much to be learned from these views, Timothy Leduc suggests a more profound call for change by returning to past understandings of the land and climate. He argues that the world is initiating us into a broader and humbler sense of what it is to be human in an interconnected reality. The world is doing this by responding to unsustainable practices such as our devastating reliance on fossil fuels. Weaving together voices from numerous backgrounds and time periods with Indigenous views on present and past environmental challenges, A Canadian Climate of Mind illuminates a world that is being shaken to its core while we hesitate to act.

Book An Anthropological Study of Spirits

Download or read book An Anthropological Study of Spirits written by Christine S. VanPool and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using examples from around the world and through time. Examples range from the vengeful spirits of the Zulu that cast lightning bolts from clear skies to punish wrongdoers, to the benevolent Puebloan Kachina that encourage prosperity, safety, and rain in the arid American Southwest. The case studies illustrate how humans seek to cooperate (or counteract) spirits to heal the physical and spiritual ailments of their people, to divine the truth, or to gain resources. Building from their cross-cultural analyses, the authors further discuss how our physiology and psychology impact our interaction with the spirits. Readers will come away with an appreciation of the beauty and power of the spirits that continue to shape the lives of people around the world.

Book The New Interpreter s Study Bible

Download or read book The New Interpreter s Study Bible written by Walter J. Harrelson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new study Bible based on The New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, 60 scholars provide background and insight on the biblical text, in a book that features extensive historical and theological annotations, brief introductions and outlines for each biblical book, 19 newly commissioned historical maps and more.

Book Religion and Technology into the Future

Download or read book Religion and Technology into the Future written by Sam Gill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past. Creatively considered in some depth are a wide range of specific examples drawn especially from contemporary film and television, as well as from cosmology, ancient mythology, biblical literature, classical literature, folklore, evolution, popular culture, technology, and futurist studies. This book is distinctive, in part, in drawing on a wide range of resources demonstrating the indispensable interrelationship among these disparate materials. Science, technology, economics, and philosophy are seamlessly interwoven with history, gender, culture, religion, literature, pop culture, art, and film. Written for general as well as academic readers, it offers fascinating and provocative insights into who we are and where we are going.

Book The Hopi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Tomchek
  • Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780516412344
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book The Hopi written by Ann Tomchek and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of the Hopi Indians describing their customs, religious beliefs, interactions with other tribes, and the changes modern civilization has brought to their traditional way of life.

Book Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century written by John D. Loftin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: