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.
Mobility, Markets and Indigenous Socialities: Contemporary Migration in the Peruvian Andes
1st Edition
By Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
June 30, 2021
Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Ødegaard demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and ritual in an urban context. Through a focus on people´s involvement in land occupations and local ...
Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood and Materiality
1st Edition
Edited
By Miguel Astor-Aguilera, Graham Harvey
June 30, 2020
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 the boundaries between the "natural" ...
Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples
1st Edition
Edited
By James L. Cox, Adam Possamai
December 12, 2019
Offering a significant contribution to the emerging field of 'Non-Religion Studies', Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples draws on Australian 2011 Census statistics to ask whether the Indigenous Australian population, like the wider Australian society, is becoming ...
The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Appropriation, Integration and Legislation
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar
December 12, 2019
During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses. Following on from the earlier edited collection, The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora continues to explore how certain alternative global religious groups, ...
The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Reinventions and Controversies
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Alex K. Gearin
September 18, 2018
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices. The recent rise of the drink’s visibility in the media and popular culture, and its rapidly advancing inroads into international awareness, mean that the field of ayahuasca is quickly ...
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 ...