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# **Category: Indigenous Religions** [← Back to categories](/religioustheory/categories/)

                ![Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/02/peace_symposium_between_sikhs_muslims_of_pakistan.webp)

### [Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power-part-2-nirvikar-singh/)

January 26, 2024 — By Nirvikar Singh

The following is the second installment of a three part series. The first can be found here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue

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                ![Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, and Power, Part 1 (Nirvikar Singh)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/02/sikh_man_agra_10.webp)

### [Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, and Power, Part 1 (Nirvikar Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power/)

January 10, 2024 — By Nirvikar Singh

The following article is the first of three installments. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and

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                ![Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 3 (Joshua Hall)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/04/screenshot-2023-04-09-at-10-45-25-pm.webp)

### [Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 3 (Joshua Hall)](/religioustheory/posts/introducing-spirit-dance-social-justice-and-reconstructed-spiritual-practices-part-3-joshua-hall/)

April 10, 2023 — By Joshua M. Hall

The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Understandable fears to the contrary notwithstanding, a cult, by

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                ![Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/04/800px-mongol_shaman_just_before_rituals.webp)

### [Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)](/religioustheory/posts/introducing-spirit-dance-social-justice-and-reconstructed-spiritual-practices-part-2-joshua-hall/)

March 31, 2023 — By Joshua M. Hall

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. As to the purpose of this spirit dancing, Kopenawa constantly emphasizes that

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                ![Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 1 (Joshua Hall)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/04/800px-volute_krater_wedding_purifying_b_lucania_roccanova_painter_350-325_bc_prague_nm-h10_4759_151621.webp)

### [Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 1 (Joshua Hall)](/religioustheory/posts/introducing-spirit-dance-social-justice-and-reconstructed-spiritual-practices-joshua-hall/)

March 16, 2023 — By Joshua M. Hall

This project was provoked by the almost nonexistent pushback from the Democratic liberal establishment to the (2020) exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse, despite

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                ![A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 3 (Tink Tinker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/11/indian-picture.webp)

### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 3 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-3-tink-tinker/)

November 10, 2022 — By Tink Tinker

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal. It

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                ![A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 2 (Tink Tinker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/11/native-american-women.webp)

### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 2 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-2-tink-tinker/)

October 31, 2022 — By Tink Tinker

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal

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                ![A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/11/1600px-john_wesley_preaching_to_native_american_indians-_engraving-_wellcome_v0006867-1210x642.webp)

### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-1-tink-tinker/)

October 15, 2022 — By Tink Tinker

The following is the first of a three-part series. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal It highlights key arguments

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                ![From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 3 (Rode Molla)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/06/tigray_near_yeha_ethiopia.webp)

### [From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 3 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-3-rode-molla/)

May 18, 2022 — By Rode Molla

The comparison between evangelical Christianity and EOC Christianity is their approach to the language. The Westerners use the mother tongue to translate

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                ![Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 3 (Vinicius Marinho)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/hagiasophia_dome_pixinn-net.webp)

### [Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 3 (Vinicius Marinho)](/religioustheory/posts/thomas-aquinass-body-soul-dualism-and-the-hierarchy-of-human-dignity-in-brazil-theological-origins-of-a-nations-self-understanding-part-3-vinicius-marinho/)

August 16, 2021 — By Vinicius Marinho

The following is the second of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. In sum, Boff proposes that a person is an indivisible body-soul

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                ![Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 2 (Vinicius Marinho)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/800px-bororo004.webp)

### [Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 2 (Vinicius Marinho)](/religioustheory/posts/thomas-aquinass-body-soul-dualism-and-the-hierarchy-of-human-dignity-in-brazil-theological-origins-of-a-nations-self-understanding-part-2-vinicius-marinho/)

August 9, 2021 — By Vinicius Marinho

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The Ecclesial Endeavor to Define the Brazilian Soul: a Summa of the Colonial

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                ![Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity in Brazil –  Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 1 (Vinicius Marinho)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/menina_da_etnia_terena-1.webp)

### [Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity in Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 1 (Vinicius Marinho)](/religioustheory/posts/thomas-aquinass-body-soul-dualism-and-the-hierarchy-of-human-dignity-in-brazil-theological-origins-of-a-nations-hierarchical-self-understanding-part-1-vinicius-marinho/)

August 3, 2021 — By Vinicius Marinho

“Manda quem pode, obedece quem tem juízo” is an old Brazilian proverb. It synthetizes, in two clauses, the dominant value of the Brazilian political culture:

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                ![Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 2 (Wendy Felese)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/03/sikoslingmuit_eskimo_woman-_southern_baffin_island-_copper-plate_engraving_17459827988.webp)

### [Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 2 (Wendy Felese)](/religioustheory/posts/reorientation-in-the-field-why-religion-matters-part-2-wendy-felese/)

March 29, 2021 — By Wendy Felese

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The article was first given at a conference in 2019 in Athens, Greece (2019).

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                ![Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 1 (Wendy Felese)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/03/inuit-kleidung_1.webp)

### [Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 1 (Wendy Felese)](/religioustheory/posts/reorientation-in-the-field-why-religion-matters-part-1-wendy-felese/)

March 15, 2021 — By Wendy Felese

The following is the first of a two-part series. It was originally published at a 2019 conference in Athens, Greece.1 When teaching classes like World Religions

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                ![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)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/01/1133px-1949_hudson_mound_builders_2831253030.webp)

### [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)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-american-indian-worldview-and-the-twinned-cosmos-of-indigenous-america-transcript-barbara-alice-mann-onondawaga-bear-clan-and-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-osage-nation/)

January 22, 2021 — By Barbara Alice Mann; Tink Tinker

The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone

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                ![Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis – Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/02/1599px-ethiopian_mothers_with_babies.webp)

### [Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis – Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/reframing-the-adwa-victory-as-a-decolonizing-praxis-discourse-around-colonization-in-the-ethiopian-context-part-2-rode-molla/)

February 4, 2020 — By Rode Molla

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Foucault, in his book, Discipline, and Punish, describes how the human body is

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                ![Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis –  Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 1 (Rode Molla)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/01/adoua_1.webp)

### [Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis – Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 1 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/reframing-the-adwa-victory-as-a-decolonizing-praxis-discourse-around-colonization-in-the-ethiopian-context/)

January 30, 2020 — By Rode Molla

In 1896 Ethiopians defeated the Italian military and defended their border. That made Ethiopia the only black nation that defended its border in the era of

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