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, ...
Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas: A Clash of Worldviews
1st Edition
By Tezenlo Thong
February 12, 2018
The term ’progress’ is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which underlies geographic explorations and scientific and technological inventions as well as the desire to harness nature in order to increase human ...
Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity
1st Edition
By Thomas Karl Alberts
February 12, 2018
Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity considers indigenous peoples’ struggles for human rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft, and entrepreneurialism of the self. The book focuses on four domains - shamanism, indigenism, environmentalism and neoliberalism - in...
Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings
1st Edition
Edited
By Max Charlesworth, Françoise Dussart, Howard Morphy
September 14, 2017
Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years ...
The Vitality of Karamojong Religion: Dying Tradition or Living Faith?
1st Edition
By Ben Knighton
March 06, 2017
How long can a traditional religion survive the impact of world religions, state hegemony, and globalization? The ’Karamoja problem’ is one that has perplexed colonial and independent governments alike. Now Karamojong notoriety for armed cattle raiding has attracted the attention of the UN and ...
African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies
1st Edition
By Ezra Chitando, Afe Adogame
February 27, 2017
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 ...
From Primitive to Indigenous: The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions
1st Edition
By James L. Cox
February 27, 2017
The academic study of Indigenous Religions developed historically from missiological and anthropological sources, but little analysis has been devoted to this classification within departments of religious studies. Evaluating this assumption in the light of case studies drawn from Zimbabwe, Alaska ...
Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By James L. Cox
December 01, 2016
The study of indigenous religions has become an important academic field, particularly since the religious practices of indigenous peoples are being transformed by forces of globalization and transcontinental migration. This book will further our understanding of indigenous religions by first ...