Beyond primitivism : indigenous religious traditions and modernity / / edited by Jacob K. Olupona.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Olupona, Jacob K. 1951-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvi, 348 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Introduction /; Do Jews make good Protestants? The cross-cultural study of ritual /; Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes of indigenous religions in the academic study of religion /; "Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Muller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion /; A postcolonial meaning of religion: some reflections from the indigenous world /; Saami responses to Christianity: resistance and change /; Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western discourse on religion /; Guidelines for the study of Mesoamerican religious traditions /; Jaguar Christians in the contact zone: concealed narratives in the histories of religions in the Americas /; Modernity, resistance, and the Iroquois Longhouse people /; "He, not they, best protected the village": religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala /; Vodou in the "Tenth Department": New York's Haitian community /; Assaulting California's sacred mountains: shamans vs. New Age merchants of Nirvana /; Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study /; The Earth Mother Scripture: unmasking the neo-archaic /; Popular religions and modernity in Japan /; Rethinking indigenous religious traditions: the case of the Ainu /; Korean shamans and the definition of "religion": a view from the grass roots /; Mandaya myth, memory, and the heroic religious tradition: between Islam and Christianity /; The Vaddas: representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka /; On wondering about wonder: Melanesians and the cargo /; Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia /; The Hawaiian lei on a voyage through modernities: a study in post-contact religion /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0415273196; 041527320X (pbk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jacob K. Olupona.