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Author(s): Philip Jenkins
ISBN(s): 9780465094059, 0465094058
Edition: First Edition
File Details: PDF, 3.96 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0465094058

ISBN 13: 9780465094059 

Author:  Philip Jenkins 

In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. While early Americans had nothing but contempt for Indian religions, deploring them as loathsome devil worship and snake dancing, white Americans today respect and admire Native spirituality. In this book, Jenkins charts this remarkable change, highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions from colonial times to the present. Jenkins ranges widely, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with “Hebrew Indians” and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis, to films like Pocahontas and Dances With Wolves. He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews, and the influential works of Frank Waters, and he explores the New Age paraphernalia found in places like Sedona, Arizona, including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. Jenkins examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places; notes that many “white Indians” see mainstream society as religiously empty; and asks why a government founded on religious freedom tried to eradicate native religions in the last century–and what this says about how we define religion. An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, Dream Catchers offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion.

Table of contents:

  1. Preface

  2. Terminology

  3. Acknowledgments

  4. Haunting America

  5. Heathen Darkness

  6. Discovering Native Religion, 1860-1920

  7. Pilgrims from the Vacuum, 1890-1920

  8. Crisis in Red Atlantis, 1914-1925

  9. Brave New Worlds, 1925-1950

  10. Before the New Age, 1920-1960

  11. Vision Quests, 1960-1980

  12. The Medicine Show

  13. Thinking Tribal Thoughts

  14. Returning the Land

  15. Conclusion: Real Religion?

  16. Notes

  17. Index

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