A Seat at the Table :Huston Smith In Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom

Publication subTitle :Huston Smith In Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom

Author: Smith > Huston  

Publisher: University Of California Press‎

Publication year: 2005

E-ISBN: 9780520940918

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520251694

Subject: B92 宗教理论与概况

Keyword: 宗教

Language: ENG

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Description

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 religions—Smith skillfully helps reveal the depth of the speakers' knowledge and experience. American Indian leaders Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), Winona LaDuke (Anishshinaabeg), Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee), Frank Dayish, Jr. (Navajo), Charlotte Black Elk (Oglala Lakota), Douglas George-Kanentiio (Mohawk-Iroquois), Lenny Foster (Dine/Navajo), Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga), Anthony Guy Lopez (Lakota-Sioux), and Oren Lyons (Onondaga) provide an impressive overview of the critical issues facing the Native American community today. Their ideas about spirituality, politics, relations with the U.S. government, their place in American society, and the continuing vitality of their communities give voice to a population that is all too often ignored in contemporary discourse. The culture they

Chapter

2. Five Hundred Nations Within One

3. Ecology and Spirituality

4. The Homelands of Religion

5. Native Language, Native Spirituality

6. The Triump of the Native American Church

7. The Fight for Native American Prisoners' Rights

8. Stealing Our Spirit

9. The Fight for Mount Graham

11. The Healing of Indian Country

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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