Dream catchers : how mainstream America discovered native spirituality / Philip Jenkins.

By:

Jenkins, Philip, 1952-

Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780195347654
019534765X
9780195161151
0195161157
1280564342
9781280564345
0195184394
9780195184396

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dream catchers.DDC classification:

299.7/93 22

LOC classification:

BL2500 .J46 2004eb

Other classification:

11.98

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Terminology -- Haunting America -- Heathen Darkness -- Discovering Native Religion, 1860-1920 -- Pilgrims from the Vacuum, 1890-1920 -- Crisis in Red Atlantis, 1914-1925 -- Brave New Worlds, 1925-1950 -- Before the New Age, 1920-1960 -- Vision Quests, 1960-1980 -- The Medicine Show -- Thinking Tribal Thoughts -- Returning the Land -- Conclusion: Real Religion?

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Summary: Jenkins offers an account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. He charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, 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. He looks at the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty.--From publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-298) and index.

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Jenkins offers an account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. He charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, 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. He looks at the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty.--From publisher description.

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