“This excellent translation will give English readers access to one of the most innovative and important anthropological publications of the past decade.”—Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley"Original and important. . . . What Galinier and Molinié give us, then, is a particularly interesting case of 'the invention of tradition' that illustrates how the past can be selectively manipulated for present-day purposes; how the local can be globalized and the global localized; how the flotsam and jetsam of New Age and occult cultures circulate and wash up on modernity's shores; how anthropologists, wittingly or unwittingly, are complicit in neo-traditional movements; and how religion, history, memory, and culture itself are malleable commodities."—David Eller, The Anthropology Review Database"A necessary and fascinating supplement to the more familiar discussions of North American Native religions and their relation to New Age beliefs and practices."—David Murray, Nova Religio
