Ancestors in Post-Contact Religion - Roots, Ruptures & Modernitys Memory

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-945454-32-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Religions of the World

This volume addresses two facets common to our human experience. We are all descendants; we all have ancestors who make powerful claims on our lives. And we live in the aftermath of contact between European-based cultures and other civilizations. It is now clear that native religions are alive and adapting in the contemporary world, just as all religions have done in all eras. The phenomenon of ancestors is common to all humans, but while prominent in most indigenous traditions, it has been suppressed in western cultures. This volume articulates crucial issues in the study of post-contact religion through the themes of the ancestral ordering of the world, intense personal attachments to forebears, and the catastrophes of colonization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friesen, Steven J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bell, Diane

Burgess, Puanani

Cousins, Ewert

Ferea, William

Garmon, Ulunui

Grim, John A.

Johnson, Rubellite

Ka'upu, David

Kanahele, Pualani

Kendall, Laurel

Long, Charles

MacDonald, Mary N.

Olupona, Jacob K.

Orbell, Margaret

Raitt, Jill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Grim, John A.
John A. Grim is Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School.

MacDonald, Mary N.
Mary N. MacDonald is Professor of History of Religions, Le Moyne College.

Friesen, Steven J.
Steven J. Friesen is Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.