A 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.

Introduction
Part I: Phenomenology: Method and Application
1. Methodological Views on African Religions
2. The Contribution of TGH Strehlow to the Contemporary Global Study of Indigenous Religions
3. 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 Study
4. Religious Typologies and the Postmodern Critique
5. African Identities as the Projection of Western Alterity
6. Phenomenological Perspectives on the Social Responsibility of the Scholar of Religion
7. The Transmission of an Authoritative Tradition: That Without Which Religion is Not Religion
8. Reflecting Critically on Indigenous Religions
9. Kinship and Location: In Defence of a Narrow Definition of Indigenous Religions
Part IV: Indigenous Religions in Global Contexts
10. 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 Religions
12. Global Intentions and Local Conflicts: The Rise and Fall of Ambuya Juliana in Zimbabwe
Part V: Affirming Indigenous Agency
13. The Debate between E.B. Tylor and Andrew Lang over the Theory of Primitive Monotheism: Implications for Contemporary Studies of Indigenous Religions
14. T.G.H. Strehlow and the Repatriation of Knowledge
Conclusion: A New Interpretation of the Phenomenology of Religion for Future Academic Studies of Indigenous Religions
Bibliography
Index