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Seat at the Table Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom

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ISBN-10: 0520251695

ISBN-13: 9780520251694

Edition: 2006

Authors: Huston Smith, Phil Cousineau, Gary Rhine, Gary Rhine, Gary Rhine

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In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom. Their intimate, impassioned dialogues yield profound insights into one of the most striking cases of tragic irony in history: the country that prides itself on religious freedom has resolutely denied those same rights to its own indigenous people. With remarkable erudition and curiosity--and respectfully framing his questions in light of the revelation that his discovery of Native American religion helped him round out his views of the world's…    
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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 253
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Huston Smith, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Syracuse University, is considered the country's preeminent public scholar of world religions. The author of The Religions of Man (1958, republished as The World's Religions in 1991) and Why Religion Matters (2001), Smith has influenced multiple generations of readers, artists, scholars, and students. He has been profiled in a PBS series by Bill Moyers and appears frequently on national TV and radio. Phil Cousineau is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Modern Times (2001), The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred (1998), and Soul…    

Huston Smith, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Syracuse University, is considered the country's preeminent public scholar of world religions. The author of The Religions of Man (1958, republished as The World's Religions in 1991) and Why Religion Matters (2001), Smith has influenced multiple generations of readers, artists, scholars, and students. He has been profiled in a PBS series by Bill Moyers and appears frequently on national TV and radio. Phil Cousineau is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Modern Times (2001), The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred (1998), and Soul…    

List of Illustrations
Preface
The Indian Way of Story
Introduction: The Primal Religions
The Spiritual Malaise in America: The Confluence of Religion, Law, and Community
Five Hundred Nations within One: The Search for Religious Justice
Ecology and Spirituality: Following the Path of Natural Law
The Homelands of Religion: The Clash of Worldviews Over Prayer, Place, and Ceremony
Native Language, Native Spirituality: From Crisis to Challenge
The Triumph of the Native American Church: Celebrating the Free Exercise of Religion
The Fight for Native American Prisoners' Rights: The Red Road to Rehabilitation
Stealing our Spirit: The Threat of the Human Genome Diversity Project
The Fight for Mount Graham: Looking for the Fingerprints of God
Redeeming the Future: The Traditional Instructions of Spiritual Law
The Healing of Indian Country: Kinship, Custom, Ceremony, and Oratory
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index