New book from Equinox Publishing
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes Edited by Molly Bassett and Natalie Avalos
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes aims to answer many of the questions that come to mind when we think about the religious lives of Native and Indigenous peoples of the world. Scholars from many fields answer dozens of questions about a wide variety of specific Indigenous religious traditions and an array of the ideas, practices, and beliefs many people associate with them. Do Native peoples have “creator Gods?” What is shamanism? What makes a religion “Indigenous?” Is Paganism considered an Indigenous religious tradition? We also interrogate the concept of "Indigenous religious traditions," by asking what the phrase means in relation to the larger fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Religious Studies, whether all religions were at some point "indigenous," and what the value of studying Indigenous religious traditions is today.
hb ISBN 9781800502024 £70 / $90 pb ISBN 9781800502031 £16.99 / $21.95 Pub date: September 2022 Extent: 224pp
Specialists respond to questions like these and many others in easily accessible language and provide references for further exploration, making this volume useful for personal study or classroom use.
Format: 216 x 140mm (8.5 x 5.5 inches) Series: Religion in 5 Minutes Readership: students and general readers Subject: Religious Studies; Indigenous Religions
The Editors Molly Bassett is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta on the traditional lands of the Muscogee/Creek. Her first bookThe Fate of Earthly Things, a study of Aztec gods and god-bodies, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2015. Natalie Avalos is an Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the Ethnic Studies department at University of Colorado Boulder, which sits within Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Territories.
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