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The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr Suzanne Owen
SeriesContinuum Advances in Religious Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:214
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreTribal religions
ISBN/Barcode 9781441185303
ClassificationsDewey:299.7
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Edition NIPPOD

Publishing Details

Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication Date 22 December 2011
Publication Country United States

Description

Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society. Their spirituality has been appropriated on a relatively large scale by Europeans and non-Native Americans, with little concern for the diversity of Native American opinions. Suzanne Owen offers an insight into appropriation that will bring a new understanding and perspective to these debates. This important volume collects together these key debates from the last 25 years and sets them in context, analyses Native American objections to appropriations of their spirituality and examines 'New Age' practices based on Native American spirituality. The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality includes the findings of fieldwork among the Mi'Kmaq of Newfoundland on the sharing of ceremonies between Native Americans and First Nations, which highlights an aspect of the debate that has been under-researched in both anthropology and religious studies: that Native American discourses about the breaking of 'protocols', rules on the participation and performance of ceremonies, is at the heart of objections to the appropriation of Native American spirituality.

Author Biography

Suzanne Owen is Associate Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the Leeds Trinity University College, UK.