A Native American Theology

A Native American Theology
Author: Clara Sue Kidwell
Publisher: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books c2001.
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This collaborative work represents a pathbreaking exercise in Native American theology. While observing traditional categories of Christian systematic theology (Creation, Deity, Christology, etc.), each of these is reimagined consistent with Native experience, values, and worldview. At the same time the authors introduce new categories from Native thought-worlds, such as the Trickster (eraser of boundaries, symbol of ambiguity), and Land. Finally, the authors address issues facing Native Americans today, including racism, poverty, stereotyping, cultural appropriation, and religious freedom. Book jacket.

Coming Full Circle

Coming Full Circle
Author: Steven Charleston
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506400485

Coming Full Circle provides a working constructive dogmatics in Native Christian theology. Drawing together leading scholars in the field, this volume seeks to encourage theologians to reconsider the rich possibilities present in the intersection between Native theory and practice and Christian theology and practice. This innovative work begins with a Native American theory for doing constructive Christian theology and illustrates the possibilities with chapters on specific Christian doctrines in a “theology in outline.” This volume will make an important contribution representing the Native American voice in Christian theology.

Native American Religious Traditions

Native American Religious Traditions
Author: Suzanne Crawford O Brien
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 131734619X

Focusing on three diverse indigenous traditions, Native American Religious Traditions highlights the distinct oral traditions and ceremonial practices; the impact of colonialism on religious life; and the ways in which indigenous communities of North America have responded, and continue to respond, to colonialism and Euroamerican cultural hegemony.

The Indian Great Awakening

The Indian Great Awakening
Author: Linford D. Fisher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199740046

This book tells the gripping story of New England's Natives' efforts to reshape their worlds between the 1670s and 1820 as they defended their land rights, welcomed educational opportunities for their children, joined local white churches during the First Great Awakening (1740s), and over time refashioned Christianity for their own purposes.

Native and Christian

Native and Christian
Author: James Treat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1136044868

Native and Christian is an anthology of essays by indigenous writers in the United States and Canada on the problem of native Christian identity. This anthology documents the emergence of a significant new collective voice on the North American religious landscape. It brings together in one volume articles originally published in a variety of sources (many of them obscure or out-of-print) including religious magazines, scholarly journals, and native periodicals, along with one previously unpublished manuscript.

Spirit and Resistance

Spirit and Resistance
Author: George E. Tinker
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

After five hundred years of conquest and social destruction, he says, any useful reflection must come to terms with the political state of Indian affairs and the political hopes and visions for recovering the health and well-being of Indian communities. Does Christian theology have a positive role to play?

A Native American Theology

A Native American Theology
Author: Kidwell, Clara Sue
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608336042

This collaborative work represents a pathbreaking exercise in Native American theology. While observing traditional categories of Christian systematic theology (Creation, Deity, Christology, etc.), each of these is reimagined consistent with Native experience, values, and worldview. At the same time the authors introduce new categories from Native thought-worlds, such as the Trickster (eraser of boundaries, symbol of ambiguity), and Land. Finally, the authors address issues facing Native Americans today, including racism, poverty, stereotyping, cultural appropriation, and religious freedom--From publisher's description.

Native American Pentecost

Native American Pentecost
Author: Corky Alexander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781935931249

This important study examines the significance of traditional Native American practices in Pentecostal worship and observes how members of the Native American Contextual Movement integrate these practices. Alexander suggests missiological implications of traditional Native American practices in Pentecostal worship and church life. He addresses the development of the powwow movement and pan-Indianism as an important sociological phenomena paving the way for inter-tribal ministry. He surveys the history of Native American ministries in the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) and traces the development of a pneumatological Pentecostal theology of religions and the use of sacred objects in Pentecostalism. By using participant observation, personal interviews, and case studies, Alexander investigates examples of active contextualization and discovers how contextualized traditional practices enhance Native Pentecostal worship and mission. The study focuses on six traditional practices that are being contextualized in Native Pentecostal churches: language, smudging, drums and rattles, dance, talking circles, and ceremony. Alexander argues that implementing these contextualized practices in Pentecostal worship reduces syncretism and moves people closer to God.

Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview

Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview
Author: RANDY S. WOODLEY
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9781540964724

"A Cherokee teacher, missiologist, and historian encourages us to reject the many problematic aspects of the Western worldview and to convert to a worldview that is closer to that of Jesus"--