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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780195347654
  • 019534765X
  • 9780195161151
  • 0195161157
  • 1280564342
  • 9781280564345
  • 0195184394
  • 9780195184396
  • 0190293373
  • 9780190293376
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dream catchers.DDC classification:
  • 299.7/93 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2500 .J46 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.98
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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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  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
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.

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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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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English.