Movement and Indigenous Religions

Meaghan Weatherdon, Seth Schermerhorn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032803265
• eBook ISBN: 9781040092729
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Sociology of Religion

This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as they intersect with issues of religion and spirituality.

Indigenous Peoples and their religious traditions have always been mobile and adaptive. Scholars of Indigenous religions have tended to focus their theories of Indigeneity and religion on Indigenous Peoples' cultural and historic connections to particular land-bases, not always attending to the full complexity of Indigenous Peoples' mobile lived realities. Attention to mobility within the study of Indigenous religions reveals the many ways Indigenous religions, in addition to being grounded on the land and situated in shared pasts, are expansive, relational, innovative, and future oriented. The contributions to this volume highlight the centrality of mobility to cultivating personhood, maintaining networks of affinity and belonging, fostering political alliances and solidarities, and generating religious meaning.

This book will be a key resource for scholars and students in the fields of religious studies, Indigenous studies, anthropology, and history, as well as to a broad general audience interested in larger questions around the politics of decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and self-determination. It was originally published as a special issue of Material Religion.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Frontispiece Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction—Movement and Indigenous Religions: A Reconsideration of Mobile Ways of Knowing and Being
• 1 Belonging to (Not “in”) Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events
• 2 Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self-Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi’kma’ki and the Métis Homeland
• 3 Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel
• 4 The Politics and Poetics of O’odham Categories of Movement: Movement in Discourse and Practice
• 5 Walking the Law throughout the Journey of Nishiyuu
• 6 A Veterans’ Talking Circle: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Re-Indigenizing Places
• 7 Mobility, Relationality, and the Decolonizing of Religious Studies: A Response to the Special Issue
• Index