Ojibwas -- Religious aspects -- Analysis, Ethnomethodology -- Analysis -- Religious aspects, Anthropology/archeology/folklore, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, History, Literature/writing, Analysis, Religious aspects
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In the enterprise of comparative religion, as with crosscultural studies in general, a major methodological problem centers on communication: How can the understanding of one culture be expressed in such [...]
Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906, A Cultural Victory (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
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Willard Hughes Rollings. Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 243 pp. Paper, $22.95. A number […]
GODS, RELIGION & culture, NATIVE American religion, SUPERNATURAL beings, IDEOLOGY
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Analyzes the means by which high god concepts developed in native U.S. citizen religions following contact with and eventual domination by European culture. Reason for the Algonkin religion being propounded as a model for precontact religion; Comparison between the lack of a high-god concept among the Odawa with Algonkin cultures to the south; Information on the ideological changes in Algonkin cultures that contributed to the development of the concept of manito.