Ancestors in Post-Contact Religion: Roots, Ruptures, and Modernity's Memory - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0945454325 ISBN 13 : 9780945454328

Editeur : Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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

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

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0945454325
• ISBN 13: 9780945454328
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Éditeur: Friesen Steven J.
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