Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Traditions Yet within this great multiplicity, he also noticed certain common themes that resonate within many Native traditions. Brown illustrates each of these themes with in-depth explorations of specific native cultures including Lakota, Navajo,
| TITLE | : | Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Traditions |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.75 (534 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0195138759 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 168 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2001-07-19 |
| GENRE | : |
Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Through years of living with and learning about Native traditions across the continent, Joseph Epes Brown learned firsthand of the great diversity of the North American Indian cultures. Yet within this great multiplicity, he also noticed certain common themes that resonate within many Native traditions. These themes include a shared sense of time as cyclical rather than linear, a belief that landscapes are inhabited by spirits, a rich oral tradition, visual arts that emphasize the process of creation, a reciprocal relationship with the natural world, and the rituals that tie these themes together. Brown illustrates each of these themes with in-depth explorations of specific native cultures including Lakota, Navajo, Apache, Koyukon, and Ojibwe. Brown was one of the first scholars to recognize th
Editorial : "A wonderful, clear synthesis-perhaps the best we have-of American Indian spiritual traditions, so precious and so illuminating, because they are not separate from land and life."--Peter Matthiessen, author of Tigers in the SnowIn this medicine bag of empathetic and insightful essay-lectures, the legacy of a preeminent scholar of American Indian religious traditions is opened for new generations of teachers and students. The late Joseph Brown was a legendary mentor, whose gentility and grace in person and on the page lent dignity and depth to the indigenous ways of knowledge and ceremony he passed on to others. Here we have Brown's thoughts on themes that preoccupied his scholarly and lecturing life: Indian concepts of time and space, language and song, animals and hunting and nature, and varieties of ritual practice. But Brown is always probing beneath these topics to a deeper, almost w
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