Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s)

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Towards a Typology of Academic Uses of ‘Indigenous Religion(s)’, or Eight (or Nine) Language Games That Scholars Play with This Phrase

2 Religion as Peoplehood: Native American Religious Traditions and the Discourse of Indigenous Rights

3 U.N.-Discourses on Indigenous Religion

4 Indigenous Feature Film: A Pathway for Indigenous Religion?

6 Not Real Christians? On the Relation between Christianity and Indigenous Religions in Amazonia and Beyond

7 Timing Indigenous Culture and Religion: Tales of Conversion and Ecological Salvation from the Amazon

8 Materialising and Performing Hawaiian Religion(s) on Mauna Kea

9 Becoming Human: ‘Urban Indian’ Decolonisation and Regeneration in the Land of Enchantment

10 Global Indigeneity and Local Christianity: Performing O’odham Identity in the Present

11 Spiritual, Not Religious; Dene, Not Indigenous: Tłįchǫ Dene Discourses of Religion and Indigeneity

12 Unsettled Natives in the Newfoundland Imaginary

13 The Shamanic Festival Isogaisa (Norway): Religious Meaning-Making in the Present

14 Are Adivasis Indigenous?

15 Is Hinduism the World’s Largest Indigenous Religion?

16 Literacy as Advocacy in the Donyipolo Movement of Northeast India

17 Ethnographies Returned: The Mobilisation of Ethnographies and the Politicisation of Indigeneity in Ifugao, the Philippines

18 The Beginning of a Long Journey: Maintaining and Reviving the Ancestral Religion among the Ainu in Japan

19 Replacing ‘Religion’ with Indigenous Spirit: Grounding Australian Indigenous Identity in Wider Worlds

20 Of Ruins and Revival: Heritage Formation and Khoisan Indigenous Identity in Post-apartheid South Africa

21 Global Intentions and Local Conflicts: The Rise and Fall of Ambuya Juliana in Zimbabwe

Afterword: The Study of Religion and the Discourses of Indigeneity

Index