Misfit Messengers: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Climate Change
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.comAS A SCHOLAR WHO HAS STUDIED indigenous religious traditions for twenty-five years and issues of environmental justi...
| Otros títulos: | Roundtable on climate destiabilization and the study of religion |
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Año: 2015, Volumen: 83, Número: 2, Páginas: 320-335 |
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| Sumario: | © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.comAS A SCHOLAR WHO HAS STUDIED indigenous religious traditions for twenty-five years and issues of environmental justice—most recently global climate change—for almost as long, I recognize that these subjects are fraught and highly contested. Such contestation begins long before one turns to the topic of the environment. Before, therefore, I turn to the subject proper of this roundtable, will illustrate what I mean by beginning at the very beginning of the academic study of indigenous traditions. By this, I mean terminology at the most granular level.Are the systems studied to be called Native or Indigenous? Both words carry with them the baggage of imperialism. Are we to call the subjects of our study “religions,” “religious traditions,” or “spiritualities”? Does calling them a “religion” impose... |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv021 |
