Meaghan Weatherdon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego on Kumeyaay land, USA. Her research focuses on spirituality and land based activism. She is currently completing a manuscript tentatively titled, The Rise of Nishiyuu: Walking the Land for Self-Determination. Seth Schermerhorn is Associate Professor and Director of the American Studies Program at Hamilton College on traditional Oneida territory, USA. He is co-editor of Indigenous Religious Traditions and author of Walking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place in Tohono O'odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories (2019).
Summary note
This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as they intersect with issues of religion and spirituality. Indigenous Peoples and their religious traditions have always been mobile and adaptive. Scholars of Indigenous religions have tended to focus their theories of Indigeneity and religion on Indigenous Peoples' cultural and historic connections to particular land-bases, not always attending to the full complexity of Indigenous Peoples' mobile lived realities. Attention to mobility within the study of Indigenous religions reveals the many ways Indigenous religions, in addition to being grounded on the land and situated in shared pasts, are expansive, relational, innovative, and future oriented. The contributions to this volume highlight the centrality of mobility to cultivating personhood, maintaining networks of affinity and belonging, fostering political alliances and solidarities, and generating religious meaning. This book will be a key resource for scholars and students in the fields of religious studies, Indigenous studies, anthropology, and history, as well as to a broad general audience interested in larger questions around the politics of decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and self-determination. It was originally published as a special issue of Material Religion.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction--Movement and Indigenous Religions: A Reconsideration of Mobile Ways of Knowing and BeingMeaghan Weatherdon and Seth Schermerhorn1. Belonging to (Not "in") Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural EventsGraham Harvey2. Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self-Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi'kma'ki and the Métis HomelandPaul L. Gareau and Jeanine Leblanc3. Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through TravelDavid S. Walsh4. The Politics and Poetics of O'odham Categories of Movement: Movement in Discourse and PracticeSeth Schermerhorn5. Walking the Law throughout the Journey of NishiyuuMeaghan Weatherdon6. A Veterans' Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing PlacesNatalie Avalos7. Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special IssueDevaka Premawardhana
ISBN
9781032803265 (hardcover)
1032803266 (hardcover)
OCLC
1419680635
Doi
10.4324/9781003496434
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