Tribal Religions

This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence i...

This interdisciplinary edited collection addresses issues at the intersection of indigenous psychology, market ideology, values, and technology. Th...

Taking place in the heart of the Huichol homeland in western Mexico, this book offers a rare in-depth look at the inner workings of Huichol shamani...

According to Cherokee tradition, the place of creation is Kituwah, located at the center of the world and home to the most sacred and oldest of all...

According to Cherokee tradition, the place of creation is Kituwah, located at the center of the world and home to the most sacred and oldest of all...

Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve lifes day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.A brilliant book,...

For any country that has a large and diverse migrant population, it is a struggle to connect these people to the countrys institutions, including t...

For any country that has a large and diverse migrant population, it is a struggle to connect these people to the countrys institutions, including t...

We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from wh...

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-ti...

This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development. Part one highlights critical debates tha...

Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses...

Coming Full Circle is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between spirituality and health among Coast Salish and Chinook communit...

In Walking to Magdalena, Seth Schermerhorn explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American and Indige...

Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses...

While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be use...

While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be use...

Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialis...

Much previous literature on sacred natural sites has been written from a non-indigenous perspective. In contrast, this book facilitates a greater s...

What counts as 'indigenous religion' in today´s world? Who claims this category? What are the processes through which local entities become recogni...

This book examines alleged superhuman powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and ...

Palero Tata Rodriguez is your guide through this exploration of Palo Kimbisa, an Afro-Cuban religion where nothing is as it seems: elements of natu...

In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward t...

The Nso Concept of Time explores cosmology among the Nso people of north-western Cameroon. It examines the concept of time within the Nso world vi...

Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on womens religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people Women in Yoruba Religion...

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa peop...