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The Oneida Creation Story is the oldest tradition of the Onyota'aka (People of the Standing Stone), one of the greatest pieces of oral literature of Native North America. This bilingual edition also features earlier translated versions, and discussion of its cultural and historical contexts.
Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western US in the 1890s, the author sets out to describe and understand the phenomenon. Seeking to demonstrate that the Ghost Dance was a legitimate religious movement, he prefaced his study with a survey of comparable millenarian movements among other American Indian groups.
This translation of the Mayan creation story, the Popul Vuh , uses the orginal K'iche'-Maya text to describe the five creative attempts to form beings who could speak intelligently, remember their creators and offer them appropriate words of reverence.
This lively overview explores historical and scriptural accounts as well as angel traditions from around the world.
Fully illustrated and containing many cultural anecdotes from around the world, a title on the personification of evil containing topics that range from the academic to the occult, and from the titillating to the disturbing.
An account of religion among the Taita of Kenya as it was during the 1950s.
Provides a basic introduction to the cultures and spiritual teachings of four Native American nations: Delaware, Cherokee, Sioux, Navajo; and also discusses such critical issues as the pan-national spiritual movements and the environment.
This ethnographic study shows how the Ngaju Dyaks, rain forest dwellers of Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) are responding to modernity. It depicts how they are attempting to fashion a modern identity for themselves, especially by remodelling their indigenous religion.