Native Religions and Cultures of North America

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

• Introduction; Lawrence Sullivan; 1. Renewal as Discourse and Discourse as Renewal in Native Northwestern California; Thomas Buckley; 2. Traditional Ways and Contemporary Vitality: Absaroke/Crow; John A. Grim; 3. Rebalancing the World in the Contradictions of History: Creek/Mukogee; Joel W. Martin; 4. Wiping the Tears: Lakota Religion in the Twenty-first century; William K. Powers; 5. The Continuous Renewal of Sacred Religions: Navajo Religion; Trudy Griffin-Pierce; 6. In the Space between Earth and Sky: Contemporary Mescalero Apache; Ceremonialism; Ines Talamantez; 7. Synchretism, Revival, and reinvention: Tlingit Religion Pre- and Postcontact; Richard Dauenhauer; 8. Eye of the Dance: Spiritual Life of the Central Yup'ik Eskimos; Ann Feinup-Riordan; 9. Images of the Sacred in Native North American Literature; Franco Meli

"Those who teach courses in Native American religious traditions know the difficulty of finding quality books that deal in concise yet reliable fashion with a number of tribal traditions and are suitable for use in the classroom. In this volume, Lawrence Sullvan seeks to help fill this lacuna. It should be easily adoptable." --Jace Weaver, JAAR, June 2002