Barbara Mann – RELIGIOUS THEORY

Critical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Barbara Alice Mann, Onondawaga, Bear Clan And Tink Tinker, Wazhazhe, Osage Nation, Eagle Clan)

January 22, 2021January 26, 2021editors_religioustheoryComment(0)

The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone Publications and involving indigenous and international scholars. The seminar took place on December 8, 2020. Roger Green: Hi everybody, my name is Roger Green, and I’m general editor of the New Polis. Thank […]

Native American Religions

Religious Studies – The Final Colonization Of American Indians, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020editors_religioustheoryComment(0)

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Indian cultures are very complex, and Osage culture is no different in that regard. Every ukon or wigie[1] is aligned around these paired divisions, and particular clans might have clan specific-responsibilities (hence, division-specific) in any wigie or ukon. For example, […]

Anthropology of Religion

Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger Green)

July 16, 2019July 27, 2019editors_religioustheoryComment(0)

The following is the second of a two-part series. The initial installment can be found here. Although we must constantly remember that the fetish is the product of European imagination, the taking-up of the concept by postcolonial thinking also informs important ways to think about race and religion. The “middle finger” of the fetish has […]