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Genre/Form: | Influence |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jenkins, Philip, 1952- Dream catchers. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)892054272 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Jenkins |
ISBN: | 0195161157 9780195161151 0195189108 9780195189100 |
OCLC Number: | 54074085 |
Awards: | Winner of One of Booklist's Top 10 Religion Books for 2004. |
Description: | xii, 306 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Haunting America -- Heathen darkness -- Discovering native religion, 1860-1920 -- Pilgrims from the vacuum, 1890-1920 -- Crisis in Red Atlantis, 1914-1925 -- Brave new worlds, 1925-1950 -- Before the new age, 1920-1960 -- Vision quests, 1960-1980 -- The medicine show -- Thinking tribal thoughts -- Returning the land -- Real religion? |
Responsibility: | Philip Jenkins. |
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"Anyone wishing to understand the ongoing romanticization of Native American spirituality should read this book.... Although Jenkins is critical of whites' apropriations of Native American culture and belief, and particularly of their tendency to repackage New Age ideas with a veneer of indigenous authority, his tone is never unfair; he does a masterful job of setting such uses-cum-exploitations in historical context."-Publishers Weekly "With his characteristic eye for nuance and his uncanny ability to master an enormous range of evidence and present it in a clear, compelling, provocative form, Jenkins has written an indispensable book."-Books & Culture "Magnetically absorbing.... Jenkins fills in the major details of the last two centuries of deep white interest in Native religion with his customary thoroughness, and he scrupulously avoids judgments about the validity as well as the theological truth of the many practices and cults he sketches. He relays fascinating history with scholarly care and in prose as clear as it is precise."-Booklist (starred review) "Jenkins has acquainted himself with the relevant historical materials and also acquainted himself with more New Age manuals, mantras and sales pitches than any human being should have to endure. This allows him to trace a striking shift in white attitudes, an exchange of one kind of willful stupidity for another."-New York Times Book Review "This extremely readable and thought-provoking book is recommended for academic and large public libraries and where there is strong interest in contemporary religion and Native Americans."-Library Journal Read more...
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- America -- Religion.
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