| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-298) and index. |
| 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 -- Medicine Show -- Thinking Tribal Thoughts -- Returning the Land -- Conclusion: Real Religion? |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
America -- Religion.
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America. |
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Religion. |
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Indians -- Religion -- Influence.
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Indians -- Religion. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jenkins, Philip, 1952- Dream catchers. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195161157 (DLC) 2003026909 (OCoLC)54074085 |
| ISBN |
9780195347654 (electronic book) |
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019534765X (electronic book) |
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9780195161151 (alkaline paper) |
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0195161157 (alkaline paper) |
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1280564342 |
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9781280564345 |
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0195184394 (electronic book) |
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9780195184396 (electronic book) |
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0195189108 (paperback) |
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9780195189100 (paperback) |
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