Vitality of Indigenous Religions
About the Book Series
Routledge's Vitality of Indigenous Religions series offers an exciting cluster of research monographs, drawing together volumes from leading international scholars across a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Indigenous religions are vital and empowering for many thousands of indigenous peoples globally, and dialogue with, and consideration of, these diverse religious life-ways promises to challenge and refine the methodologies of a number of academic disciplines, whilst greatly enhancing understandings of the world.
This series explores the development of contemporary indigenous religions from traditional, ancestral precursors, but the characteristic contribution of the series is its focus on their living and current manifestations. Devoted to the contemporary expression, experience and understanding of particular indigenous peoples and their religions, books address key issues which include: the sacredness of land, exile from lands, diasporic survival and diversification, the indigenization of Christianity and other missionary religions, sacred language, and re-vitalization movements. Proving of particular value to academics, graduates, postgraduates and higher level undergraduate readers worldwide, this series holds obvious attraction to scholars of Native American studies, Maori studies, African studies and offers invaluable contributions to religious studies, sociology, anthropology, geography and other related subject areas.
Topographies of African Spirituality: Essays in Honor of Jacob K. Olupona
1st Edition
Edited
By Afe Adogame, Ebenezer Obadare, Wale Adebanwi
January 31, 2025
This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provides an interdisciplinary reflection on key issues in the field and sheds light on everyday ...
Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance: Reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's Account
1st Edition
By Fritz Detwiler
September 25, 2023
Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex – the most important Lakota ceremony – creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview ...
Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi: Reclaiming Sacred Grounds
1st Edition
By Siv Ellen Kraft
May 31, 2023
Indigenous religion(s) are afterlives of a particular sort, shaped by globalising discourses on what counts as an indigenous religion on the one hand and the continued presence of local traditions on the other. Focusing on the Norwegian side of Sápmi since the 1970s, this book explores the ...
The Shamaness in Asia: Gender, Religion and the State
1st Edition
Edited
By Davide Torri, Sophie Roche
May 06, 2022
This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts. An international range of contributors cover a broad geographical scope, ranging from ...
Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal
1st Edition
By Davide Torri
April 29, 2022
This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal. Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface that exists in the animated landscape of the Himalayas. Opening with an analysis of the ethnic revival of Nepal, ...
Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin M. Wright, Aparecida Vilaça
December 13, 2021
Native Christians reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually ...
Religious Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Making of Religious Identities
1st Edition
By Helena Onnudottir, Adam Possamai
December 13, 2021
Exploring religious and spiritual changes which have been taking place among Indigenous populations in Australia and New Zealand, this book focuses on important changes in religious affiliation in census data over the last 15 years. Drawing on both local social and political debates, while ...
Caribbean Diaspora in the USA: Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City
1st Edition
By Bettina Schmidt
June 30, 2021
Caribbean Diaspora in the USA presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. All cultures ...
Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Harvey, Charles D. Thompson Jr.
June 30, 2021
Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations engages ...
Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church: Visual Culture, Missionization and Appropriation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen J. Martin
June 30, 2021
Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church presents views, concepts and perspectives on the relationships among Indigenous Peoples and the Catholic Church, as well as stories, images and art as metaphors for survival in a contemporary world. Few studies present such interdisciplinary...
Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe: Health and Well-Being
1st Edition
By Tabona Shoko
June 30, 2021
Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions. Analysing the traditional Karanga ...
Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology
1st Edition
By Anne-Christine Hornborg
June 30, 2021
This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi'kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. In order not to depict Mi'kmaq ...