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This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as they intersect with issues of religion and spirituality.
List of contents
Introduction-Movement and Indigenous Religions: A Reconsideration of Mobile Ways of Knowing and Being 1. Belonging to (Not "in") Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events 2. Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self-Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi'kma'ki and the Métis Homeland 3. Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel 4. The Politics and Poetics of O'odham Categories of Movement: Movement in Discourse and Practice 5. Walking the Law throughout the Journey of Nishiyuu 6. A Veterans' Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing Places 7. Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special Issue
About the author
Meaghan Weatherdon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego on Kumeyaay land, USA. Her research focuses on spirituality and land based activism. She is currently completing a manuscript tentatively titled,
The Rise of Nishiyuu: Walking the Land for Self-Determination.
Seth Schermerhorn is Associate Professor and Director of the American Studies Program at Hamilton College on traditional Oneida territory, USA. He is co-editor of
Indigenous Religious Traditions and author of
Walking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place in Tohono O'odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories (2019).
Summary
This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as they intersect with issues of religion and spirituality.
