Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions

James L. Cox is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK and Adjunct Professor in the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University, Australia.

• IntroductionPart I: Phenomenology: Method and Application1. Methodological Views on African Religions2. The Contribution of TGH Strehlow to the Contemporary Global Study of Indigenous Religions3. Missionaries, the Phenomenology of Religion and ‘Re-presenting’ 19th-Century African Religion: A Case Study of Peter McKenzie’s Hail Orisha!Part II: The Phenomenological Subject and Object of Study4. Religious Typologies and the Postmodern Critique5. African Identities as the Projection of Western Alterity6. Phenomenological Perspectives on the Social Responsibility of the Scholar of Religion7. The Transmission of an Authoritative Tradition: That Without Which Religion is Not Religion8. Reflecting Critically on Indigenous Religions9. Kinship and Location: In Defence of a Narrow Definition of Indigenous ReligionsPart IV: Indigenous Religions in Global Contexts10. Secularizing the Land: The Impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act on Indigenous Understandings of Land 11. The Study of Religion and Non-religion in the Emerging Field of ‘Non-religion Studies’: Its Significance for Interpreting Australian Aboriginal Religions12. Global Intentions and Local Conflicts: The Rise and Fall of Ambuya Juliana in ZimbabwePart V: Affirming Indigenous Agency13. The Debate between E.B. Tylor and Andrew Lang over the Theory of Primitive Monotheism: Implications for Contemporary Studies of Indigenous Religions14. T.G.H. Strehlow and the Repatriation of KnowledgeConclusion: A New Interpretation of the Phenomenology of Religion for Future Academic Studies of Indigenous ReligionsBibliographyIndex