Ancestors in Post-Contact Religion: Roots, Ruptures, and Modernity's Memory

by Ewert H. Cousins and Puanani Burgess

Book Overview

This volume addresses two facets common to our human experience. We are all descendants; we all have ancestors who make powerful claims on our lives. And we live in the aftermath of contact between European-based cultures and other civilisations. It is now clear that native religions are alive and adapting in the contemporary world, just as all religions have done in all eras. The phenomenon of ancestors is common to all humans, but while prominent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945454317
• ISBN13: 9780945454311
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"