Teaching Spirits Understanding Native American Religious Traditions

Name: Teaching Spirits Understanding Native American Religious Traditions
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ISBN: 9780195138757

ISBN-10: 0195138759

ISBN-13: 9780195138757

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joseph Epes Brown, Emily Cousins

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Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Within the great multiplicity of Native American cultures, Joseph Epes Brown has perceived certain common themes that resonate within many Native traditions. He demonstrates how themes within native traditions connect with each other while upholding the integrity of individual traditions. Brown and Cousins illustrate these themes with in-depth explorations of specific native cultures including Lakota, Navajo, Apache, Koyukon, and Ojibwe. They also demonstrates how Native American spiritual values provide an alternative metaphysics that stands opposed to modern materialism. These values provide material for…

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List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/19/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.59" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction



Back to Back



Changeless at the Heart of Change: Concepts of Time and Process



Fixing a Center: Native American Sacred Geography



Silence, the Word, and the Sacred: Evoking the Sacred through Language and Song



"There Is No Word for Art": The Creative Process



Relationship and Reciprocity: A Metaphysics of Nature



A Unity of Experience: Purification, Expansion, and Identity through Ritual


Notes


Index