Religious Revitalization Among the Kiowas - The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity

Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.¿He is the author of Kiowa Belief and Ritual¿(Nebraska, 2017).
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List of contents

List of Illustrations
Kiowa Pronunciations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Kiowa Culture in the Nineteenth Century
1. Christianity, Peyotism, Shamanism, and Prophecy from the Reservation Period to Statehood, 1869–1906
2. The Ghost Dance, 1890–1916
3. Christianity and Peyotism in the Postallotment Era
4. Peyotism and Christianity after World War II
Conclusion: Indigenized Christianity and Spirituality
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the author of Kiowa Belief and Ritual (Nebraska, 2017).
 

Summary

"Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, "Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas" examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century"--

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Kracht, Benjamin R Kracht, Benjamin R. Kracht
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781496204585
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0458-5
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore