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Christopher Jocks
Christopher Jocks Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Religion, Dartmouth College. Author of numerous studies of Native American religion and culture.
Christopher Jocks,
Lawrence E. Sullivan
Professor of the History of Religions; Director, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University. Author of Icanchu's Drum: South American Religions, an Orientation to Meaning.
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Native American religions, religious beliefs and sacramental practices of the indigenous peoples of North and South America. Until the 1950s it was commonly assumed that the religions of the surviving Native Americans were little more than curious anachronisms, dying remnants of humankind’s childhood. These traditions lacked sacred texts and fixed doctrines or moral codes and were embedded in societies without wealth, mostly without writing, and without recognizable systems of politics or justice or any of the usual indicators of civilization. Today the situation has changed dramatically. Scholars of religion, students of the ecological sciences, and individuals committed to expanding and ...(100 of 4509 words)

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