Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s)

Greg Johnson, Ph.D. (2003), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado. Johnson studies indigenous traditions and law, with a focus on burial protection, repatriation, and sacred land disputes in Native American and Hawaiian contexts. Siv Ellen Kraft, Ph.D (1999), University of Bergen, is Professor of Religious Studies at UiT – the Arctic University of Norway. Kraft studies contemporary indigenous religion(s), with a particular focus on the Sami. Contributors are: Greg Alles Department of Religious Studies McDaniel College Natalie Avalos Department of Religious Studies Connecticut College Steve Bevis Department of Indigenous Education and Research The University of Newcastle, Australia Cato Christensen Department of International Studies and Interpreting Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences James Cox Department of Religious Studies The University of Edinburgh Trude Fonneland Department of Cultural Sciences UiT. The Arctic University of Norway Rosalind Hackett Department of Religious Studies University of Tennessee Duane Jethro Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage Humboldt University, Berlin Greg Johnson Department of Religious studies University of Boulder, Colorado. Takeshi Kimura Faculty of Philosophy University of Tsukuba, Japan Siv Ellen Kraft Department of History, Archeology and Religious Studies UiT. The Arctic University of Norway Arkotong Longkumer Religious Studies The University of Edinburgh Michael McNally Department of Religion Carleton College Minna Opas School of History, Culture and Arts Studies University of Turku Suzanne Owen Department of Religious Studies Leeds Trinity University Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme Department of Social Anthropology University of Oslo Claire Scheid The Study of Religions Department National University of Ireland-University College Cork Seth Schermerhorn Religious Studies Department Hamilton College Bjørn Ola Tafjord Department of History, Archeology and Religious Studies UiT. The Arctic University of Norway Thomas Tweed Department of American Studies University of Notre Dame David Walsh Department of Religious Studies Gettysburg College John Ødemark Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages The University of Oslo

Preface



Introduction

 Greg Johnson and Siv Ellen Kraft

1 Towards a Typology of Academic Uses of ‘Indigenous Religion(s)’, or, Eight (or Nine) Language Games That Scholars Play with This Phrase

 Bjørn Ola Tafjord

2 Religion as Peoplehood: Native American Religious Traditions and the Discourse of Indigenous Rights

 Michael D. McNally

3 u.n.-Discourses on Indigenous Religion

 Siv Ellen Kraft

4 Indigenous Feature Film: A Pathway for Indigenous Religion?

 Cato Christensen

5 Sounds Indigenous: Negotiating Identity in an Era of World Music

 Rosalind I.J. Hackett

6 Not Real Christians? On the Relation between Christianity and Indigenous Religions in Amazonia and Beyond

 Minna Opas

7 Timing Indigenous Culture and Religion: Tales of Conversion and Ecological Salvation from the Amazon

 John Ødemark

8 Materialising and Performing Hawaiian Religion(s) on Mauna Kea

 Greg Johnson

9 Becoming Human: ‘Urban Indian’ Decolonisation and Regeneration in the Land of Enchantment

 Natalie Avalos

10 Global Indigeneity and Local Christianity: Performing O’Odham Identity in the Present

 Seth Schermerhorn

11 Spiritual, Not Religious; Dene, Not Indigenous: Tłįchǫ Dene Discourses of Religion and Indigeneity

 David S. Walsh

12 Unsettled Natives in the Newfoundland Imaginary

 Suzanne Owen

13 The Shamanic Festival Isogaisa (NORWAY): Religious Meaning-Making in the Present

 Trude Fonneland

14 Are Adivasis Indigenous?

 Gregory D. Alles

15 Is Hinduism the World’s Largest Indigenous Religion?

 Arkotong Longkumer

16 Literacy as Advocacy in the Donyipolo Movement of India

 Claire S. Scheid

17 Ethnographies Returned: The Mobilisation of Ethnographies and the Politicisation of Indigeneity in Ifugao, the Philippines

 Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme

18 The Beginning of a Long Journey: Maintaining and Reviving the Ancestral Religion among the Ainu in Japan

 Takeshi Kimura

19 Replacing ‘Religion’ with Indigenous Spirit: Grounding Australian Indigenous Identity in Wider Worlds

 Steve Bevis

20 Of Ruins and Revival: Heritage Formation and Khoisan Indigenous Identity in Post-apartheid South Africa

 Duane Jethro

21 Global Intentions and Local Conflicts: The Rise and Fall of Ambuya Juliana in Zimbabwe

 James L. Cox

Afterword: The Study of Religion and the Discourses of Indigeneity

 Thomas A. Tweed



Index