Native Religions and Cultures of North America - Anthropology of the Sacred

This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

Zusammenfassung

Those who teach courses in Native American religious traditions know the difficulty of finding quality books that deal in concise yet reliable fashion with a number of tribal traditions and are suitable for use in the classroom. In this volume, Lawrence Sullivan seeks to help fill this lacuna.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Lawrence Sullivan (Herausgeber), Lawrence E Sullivan (Herausgeber), Lawrence E. Sullivan (Herausgeber), Sullivan Lawrence (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780826414861
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-1486-1
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 393 g
• Serie: Anthropology of the Sacred
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, North America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, North America (USA and Canada), Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal