Beyond primitivism : indigenous religious traditions and modernity /
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New York :
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Jacob K. Olupona
- PART I. MODERNITY AND METHODOLOGY
- Do Jews make good Protestants? The cross-cultural study of ritual / Naomi Janowitz
- Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes of indigenous religions in the academic study of religion / Armin W. Geertz
- "Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Müller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion / David Chidester
- A postcolonial meaning of religion: some reflections from the indigenous world / Charles H. Long
- Saami responses to Christianity: resistance and change / Håkan Rydving
- PART II. THE AMERICAS
- Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western discourse on religion / John C. Mohawk
- Guidelines for the study of Mesoamerican religious traditions / Alfredo López Austin
- Jaguar Christians in the contact zone: concealed narratives in the histories of religions in the Americas / David Carrasco
- Modernity, resistance, and the Iroquois Longhouse people / Chris Jocks
- "He, not they, best protected the village": religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala / Bruce Lincoln
- Vodou in the "Tenth Department": New York's Haitian community / Karen McCarthy Brown
- Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana / Helen McCarthy
- PART III. AFRICA AND ASIA
- Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
- The Earth Mother Scripture: unmasking the neo-archaic / Whalen W. Lai
- Popular religions and modernity in Japan / Michio Araki
- Rethinking indigenous religious traditions: the case of the Ainu / Katarina V. Sjöberg
- Korean shamans and the definition of "religion": a view from the grass roots / Laurel Kendall
- Mandaya myth, memory, and the heroic religious tradition: between Islam and Christianity / Aram A. Yengoyan
- The Vaddas: representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka / Gananath Obeyesekere
- PART IV. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
- On wondering about wonder: Melanesians and the cargo / Garry W. Trompf
- Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia / Mary N. MacDonald
- The Hawaiian lei on a voyage through modernities: a study in post-contact religion / Steven J. Friesen.