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Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. The field that is now called "philosophy of religion" could quite easily be renamed "philosophy of theism" with few lecturers on the subject having to change their lecture notes. It is the aim of this volume to rectify that failure and to present animism as a live option among the plethora of religious worldviews. The volume addresses four major questions: 1. What is this thing called "animism"? 2. Are there any arguments for or against animist belief and practice? 3. What is the relationship between animism, naturalism, and the sciences? And 4. Should we take animism seriously? Animism and Philosophy of Religion is intended to be the first authoritative scholarly volume on the issue of animism and its place in the philosophy of religion. Ambitiously, it aims to act as the cornerstone volume for future work on the subject and as a key text for courses engaging with the subject. Tiddy Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Massey University. He is the author of The Methods of Science and Religion (Rowman and Littlefield) and has published various articles in journals such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophia.
Religion—Philosophy. --- Cognitive science. --- Indigenous peoples—Religion. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Cognitive Science. --- Indigenous Religion. --- Science --- Philosophy of mind --- Animism. --- Religion --- Philosophy. --- Fetishism --- Mana --- Hylozoism --- Soul
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Religious leaders --- Ch'oe, Che-u --- Korea --- Church history --- Su'un --- symbolism --- Korean indigenous religion --- mysticism --- talisman --- incantation --- Haewol --- Donghak --- Cheondo-gyo
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This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith must act in order to address the challenge of climate change. Despite the fact that Africa has contributed relatively little to historic carbon emissions, the continent will be affected disproportionally by the increasing impact of anthropogenic climate change. Contributors to this book provide a range of rich case studies to investigate how religious traditions such as Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and indigenous faiths influence the worldviews and actions of their adherents. The chapters also interrogate how the moral authority and leadership provided by religion can be used to respond and adapt to the challenges posed by climate change. Topics covered include risk reduction and resilience, youth movements, indigenous knowledge systems, environmental degradation, gender perspectives, ecological theories, and climate change financing. This book will be of interest to scholars in diverse fields, including religious studies, sociology, political science, climate change and environmental humanities. It may also benefit practitioners involved in solving community challenges related to climate change.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- christianity --- environment --- indigenous religion --- islam --- religious authority --- Africa --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- Environmental conditions. --- Eastern Hemisphere
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“Sámi Religion: Religious Identities, Practices, and Dynamics” explores expressions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ in contemporary cultures, the role it plays in identity politics and heritagization processes, and the ways the past and present are entangled. In recent years, attitudes towards ‘’Sámi religion’’ have changed both within religious, cultural, political, and educational contexts as a consequence of what can be called the ‘’Indigenous turn’’. Contemporary, indigenous religion is approached as a something that adds value by a range of diverse actors and for a variety of reasons. In this Special Issue, we take account of emic categories and connections, focusing on which notions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ are used today by religious entrepreneurs and others who share and promote these types of spiritual beliefs, and how Sámi religion is taking shape on a plenitude of arenas in contemporary society.
Sámi shamanism --- drums --- cosmological landscapes --- healing --- cultural heritage --- art --- spirits --- sun --- Sámi religion --- sieidi --- offering site --- contemporary offerings --- tourism --- Sápmi --- spiritual activism --- indigenous religion(s) --- colonialism --- Christianity --- institutional reconciliation --- justice --- Saami people --- Church of Norway --- Church of Sweden --- tourist souvenirs --- Sámi “shaman” drums --- Indigenous spirituality --- Frozen II --- indigenous religion --- religion-making --- appropriation --- collaboration --- religion --- terminology --- indigenous terms --- translation --- shamanism --- indigenous people --- Sámi --- curriculum --- religious education --- Sami --- Sami shamanism --- animism --- popular culture --- ludism --- materialist turn --- Frozen 2 --- Klaus --- Midnattssol --- KEiiNO --- ESC --- identity --- spirituality --- yoik --- indigenizing --- decolonizing --- recreating --- music --- authenticity --- indigenous methodologies --- Standing Rock --- activism --- traditional knowledge --- relationality --- reconnecting --- n/a --- Sámi shamanism --- Sámi religion --- Sápmi --- Sámi "shaman" drums --- Sámi
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This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peoples: the San, Maasai, Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba. Unlike the homogenizing tendencies of many earlier comparative works by scholars of religion, this book highlights the differences between and the plurality within the religions and cultures of the selected peoples, as well as processes of change. The work covers a period of about 100 years, from the late 19th to the late 20th century, and much of the material used comes from European mission archives. To different degrees among the peoples studied, there has been a gradual shift from an emphasis on spiritual beings such as God and ancestors to living humans like 'witches' as agents of disease. In a theoretically eclective analysis, possible reasons for this shift are discussed.
Diseases --- Causes and theories of causation. --- Religious aspects. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Religion. --- Aetiology --- Etiology --- Causes and theories of causation --- Religious aspects --- Pathology --- Medicine, African Traditional. --- Africa --- indigenous religion --- diseases --- San --- Maasai --- Sukuma --- Kongo --- yoruba --- Religion and culture --- religious history --- spirituality --- witchcraft
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In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom. Their intimate, impassioned dialogues yield profound insights into one of the most striking cases of tragic irony in history: the country that prides itself on religious freedom has resolutely denied those same rights to its own indigenous people. With remarkable erudition and curiosity-and respectfully framing his questions in light of the revelation that his discovery of Native American religion helped him round out his views of the world's religions-Smith skillfully helps reveal the depth of the speakers' knowledge and experience. American Indian leaders Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), Winona LaDuke (Anishshinaabeg), Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee), Frank Dayish, Jr. (Navajo), Charlotte Black Elk (Oglala Lakota), Douglas George-Kanentiio (Mohawk-Iroquois), Lenny Foster (Dine/Navajo), Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga), Anthony Guy Lopez (Lakota-Sioux), and Oren Lyons (Onondaga) provide an impressive overview of the critical issues facing the Native American community today. Their ideas about spirituality, politics, relations with the U.S. government, their place in American society, and the continuing vitality of their communities give voice to a population that is all too often ignored in contemporary discourse. The culture they describe is not a relic of the past, nor a historical curiosity, but a living tradition that continues to shape Native American lives.
Indians of North America --- Freedom of religion --- Religion. --- Religion and mythology --- american government. --- american society. --- anishinaabeg. --- community. --- ecology. --- free exercise of religion. --- indigenous peoples. --- indigenous religion. --- iroquois. --- kinship. --- lakota. --- law. --- mohawk. --- native american culture. --- native american religions. --- native americans. --- native peoples. --- navajo. --- oglala lakota. --- onondaga. --- pawnee. --- politics. --- religion. --- religious ceremony. --- religious freedom. --- religious justice. --- sioux. --- spiritual law. --- spiritual. --- spirituality. --- standing rock sioux.
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Zimbabwean social media has been awash with images of a woman character, spirit, or concept called Chihera. Traditionally, a woman descending from the Mhofu (Eland) lineage/totem is known as Chihera. In the cumulative tradition of the Shona (a Zimbabwean ethnic group), Chihera is a fiercely independent, assertive, free spirited, and no nonsense woman. This volume seeks to deepen reflections on the Chihera phenomenon in the context of the search for gender justice in Zimbabwe and Africa. The authors reflect on how this radical indigenous feminist ethic circulating on social media can animate the quest for Zimbabwean and African women’s full liberation from patriarchy and all oppressive forces. They grapple with the issue of generating culturally sensitive theories and approaches to galvanize the struggle for African women’s liberation in post-colonial settings. Second, they locate the Chihera mystique in the context of the practical struggle for women’s empowerment. Third, the volume illustrates how the Chihera phenomenon could be utilized for gender justice in Zimbabwe and beyond. Ezra Chitando is Professor of History and Phenomenology of Religion and World Council of Churches Theology Consultant on HIV and AIDS in Africa. Sophia Chirongoma is a senior lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She is also an academic associate/research fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (RITR) at UNISA. Munyaradzi Nyakudya is a senior lecturer in the History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems Department at the University of Zimbabwe. He has research interests in, among other areas, history, ethnomusicology, and human security.
Sex. --- Ethnology—Africa. --- Culture. --- Indigenous peoples—Religion. --- Gender Studies. --- African Culture. --- Indigenous Religion. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Social aspects --- Equality. --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Africa. --- Religion.
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This volume explores the importance of inter-generational oral culture and stories that transcend time, space, and boundaries transmitted historically from one generation to the next through proverbs, idioms, and folklore tales in different geographical and spatial contexts. These important stories and their embedded life lessons are introduced, explained, and supplemented with pre and post educational activities and lesson plans to be used as learning resources. The centering of orality as a tool and medium for educating the future generation is a reclamation and reaffirmation of Indigeneity, Indigenous knowledges. and non-hegemonic approaches to support students in a socio-culturally sustaining manner. Through this understanding, this book explores the interconnectedness between culture, traditions, language, and way of life through oral storytelling, sharing, and listening. .
Teaching. --- Education in literature. --- Prose literature. --- Indigenous peoples—Religion. --- Pedagogy. --- Literature and Pedagogy. --- Literary Didactics. --- Narrative Text and Prose. --- Indigenous Religion. --- Literature --- Schools in literature --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Education --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- Folklore and education. --- Education and folklore --- Folk-lore and education --- Folklore --- Educació
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From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting religious systems a variable blend of Greek and indigenous elements. Greek Gods Abroad examines the interaction between Greek religion and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean with which it came into contact. Robert Parker shows how Greek conventions for naming gods were extended and adapted and provides bold new insights into religious and psychological values across the Mediterranean. The result is a rich portrait of ancient polytheism as it was practiced over 600 years of history.
Gods, Greek. --- Civilization, Classical. --- Polytheism. --- Mediterranean Region --- Civilization. --- 3rd century. --- afghanistan. --- ancient greece. --- ancient polytheism. --- ancient world. --- belief. --- eastern mediterranean. --- european history. --- faith. --- greek gods. --- greek history. --- greek mythology. --- greek religion. --- indigenous people. --- indigenous populations. --- indigenous religion. --- mediterranean. --- naming gods. --- polytheism. --- psychology. --- regional. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- settlers. --- spain. --- third century. --- world history. --- world religion. --- worship.
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“Sámi Religion: Religious Identities, Practices, and Dynamics” explores expressions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ in contemporary cultures, the role it plays in identity politics and heritagization processes, and the ways the past and present are entangled. In recent years, attitudes towards ‘’Sámi religion’’ have changed both within religious, cultural, political, and educational contexts as a consequence of what can be called the ‘’Indigenous turn’’. Contemporary, indigenous religion is approached as a something that adds value by a range of diverse actors and for a variety of reasons. In this Special Issue, we take account of emic categories and connections, focusing on which notions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ are used today by religious entrepreneurs and others who share and promote these types of spiritual beliefs, and how Sámi religion is taking shape on a plenitude of arenas in contemporary society.
Research & information: general --- Sámi shamanism --- drums --- cosmological landscapes --- healing --- cultural heritage --- art --- spirits --- sun --- Sámi religion --- sieidi --- offering site --- contemporary offerings --- tourism --- Sápmi --- spiritual activism --- indigenous religion(s) --- colonialism --- Christianity --- institutional reconciliation --- justice --- Saami people --- Church of Norway --- Church of Sweden --- tourist souvenirs --- Sámi "shaman" drums --- Indigenous spirituality --- Frozen II --- indigenous religion --- religion-making --- appropriation --- collaboration --- religion --- terminology --- indigenous terms --- translation --- shamanism --- indigenous people --- Sámi --- curriculum --- religious education --- Sami --- Sami shamanism --- animism --- popular culture --- ludism --- materialist turn --- Frozen 2 --- Klaus --- Midnattssol --- KEiiNO --- ESC --- identity --- spirituality --- yoik --- indigenizing --- decolonizing --- recreating --- music --- authenticity --- indigenous methodologies --- Standing Rock --- activism --- traditional knowledge --- relationality --- reconnecting --- Sámi shamanism --- drums --- cosmological landscapes --- healing --- cultural heritage --- art --- spirits --- sun --- Sámi religion --- sieidi --- offering site --- contemporary offerings --- tourism --- Sápmi --- spiritual activism --- indigenous religion(s) --- colonialism --- Christianity --- institutional reconciliation --- justice --- Saami people --- Church of Norway --- Church of Sweden --- tourist souvenirs --- Sámi "shaman" drums --- Indigenous spirituality --- Frozen II --- indigenous religion --- religion-making --- appropriation --- collaboration --- religion --- terminology --- indigenous terms --- translation --- shamanism --- indigenous people --- Sámi --- curriculum --- religious education --- Sami --- Sami shamanism --- animism --- popular culture --- ludism --- materialist turn --- Frozen 2 --- Klaus --- Midnattssol --- KEiiNO --- ESC --- identity --- spirituality --- yoik --- indigenizing --- decolonizing --- recreating --- music --- authenticity --- indigenous methodologies --- Standing Rock --- activism --- traditional knowledge --- relationality --- reconnecting
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