Cosmology and moral community in the Lakota Sun Dance : reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's account /
"Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker's 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex-the most important Lakota ceremony--creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Series: | Vitality of indigenous religions.
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| Summary: | "Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker's 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex-the most important Lakota ceremony--creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition. The book uses Walker's primary source to conduct a reading of the Sun Dance in its nineteenth-century context through the lenses of Lakota metaphysics, cosmology, ontology and ethics. The author argues that the Sun Dance constitutes a cosmic ethical drama in which persons of all types - human and non-human -- come together in reciprocal actions and relationships. Drawing on contemporary animist theory and a perspectivist approach that uses Lakota worldview assumptions as the basis for analysis, the book enables a richer understanding of the Sun Dance and its role in the Lakota moral world. Offering a nuanced understanding that centers Lakota views of the sacred, this book will be relevant to scholars of religion and animism, and all those interested in Native American cultures and lifeways"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 143 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367725587 0367725584 9780367748807 0367748800 |