Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009

Brandi Denison (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2017
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-7674-1 (ISBN)

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Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America-twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisement by tracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This shift was made possible through the development and deployment of an idealized American religion based on Enlightenment ideals of individualism, Victorian sensibilities about the female body, and an emerging respect for diversity and commitment to religious pluralism that was wholly dependent on a separation of economics from religion.

As the narrative unfolds, Denison shows how Utes and their Anglo-American allies worked together to systematize a religion out of existing ceremonial practices, anthropological observations, and Euro-American ideals of nature. A variety of societies then used religious beliefs and practices to give meaning to the land, which in turn shaped inhabitants’ perception of an exclusive American religion. Ultimately, this movement from the tangible to the abstract demonstrates the development of a normative American religion, one that excludes minorities even as they are the source of the idealized expression.

Brandi Denison is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of North Florida.

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Religion, Memory, and the American West
1. Plowing for Providence: Nathan Meeker’s Folly
2. Of Outrageous Treatment: Sexual Purity, Empire, and Land
3. She-towitch and Chipeta: Remembering the “Good” Indian
4. Abstracting Ute Land Religion: Fiction and Anthropology on the Reservation
5. Remembering Removal: Enacting Religion and Memorializing the Land
6. The Limits of Reconciliation: Ute Land Religion, Hunting Rights, and the Smoking River Powwow
Conclusion: The Burden of Dirt and the Politics of Memory
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Zusatzinfo	16 illustrations, 4 maps, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8032-7674-5 / 0803276745
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-7674-1 / 9780803276741
Zustand	Neuware