Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians write by Warren Jefferson. This book was released on 2009-03-25. Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is an in-depth look at spiritual experiences about which very little has been written. Belief in reincarnation exists not only in India but in most small tribal societies throughout the world, including many Indian groups in North America. The reader is offered a rich tapestry of stories from a number of North American tribes about death, dying, and returning to this life. Included are stories from the Inuit of the polar regions; the Northwest Coast people, such as the Kwakiutl, the Gitxsan, the Tlingit, and the Suquamish; the Hopi and the Cochiti of the Southwest; the Winnebago of the Great Lakes region; the Cherokee of the Southeast,; and the Sioux people of the Plains area. Readers will learn about a Winnebago shaman's initiation, the Cherokee's Orpheus myth, the Hopi story of A Journey to the Skeleton House, the Inuit man who lived the lives of all animals, the Ghost Dance, and other extraordinary accounts. The ethnological record indicates reincarnation beliefs are found among the indigenous peoples on all continents of this earth as well as in most of the world's major religions. This book makes a valuable contribution towards having a deeper understanding of North American Indian spiritual beliefs.
Amerindian Rebirth
Amerindian Rebirth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amerindian Rebirth write by Canadian Anthropology Society. Meeting. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Amerindian Rebirth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day. Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Huron eschatology, Winnebago ideology, varying forms of Inuit belief, and concepts of rebirth found among subarctic natives and Northwest Coast peoples. The closing chapters address the genesis and anthropological study of Amerindian reincarnation. In addition, the possibility of evidence for the actuality of rebirth is addressed. Amerindian Rebirth will further our understanding of concepts of self-identity, kinship, religion, cosmology, resiliency, and change among native North American peoples
Amerindian Rebirth
Amerindian Rebirth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amerindian Rebirth write by Antonia Curtze Mills. This book was released on 1993. Amerindian Rebirth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians
Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians write by Åke Hultkrantz. This book was released on 1953. Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reincarnation in America
Reincarnation in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reincarnation in America write by Lee Irwin. This book was released on 2017-07-31. Reincarnation in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reincarnation in America: An Esoteric History surveys the complex history of reincarnation theories across multiple fields of discourse in a pre-American context, ranging from early Greek traditions to Medieval Christian theories, Renaissance esotericism, and European Kabbalah, all of which had adherents that brought those theories to America. Rebirth theories are shown in all these groups to be highly complex and often disjunctive with mainstream religions even though members of conventional religions frequently affirm the possibility of rebirth. As a history of an idea, reincarnation theory is a current, vital belief pattern that cuts across a wide spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific domains in a long, complex history not reducible to any specific religious or theoretical explanation. This book is cross-disciplinary and multicultural, linking religious studies perspectives with science based research; it draws upon many distinct disciplines and avoids reduction of reincarnation to any specific theory. The underlying thesis is to demonstrate the complexity of reincarnation theories; what is unique is the historical overview and the gradual shift away from religious theories of rebirth to new theories that are therapeutic and trans-traditional.
