We have a religion : the 1920s Pueblo Indian dance controversy and American religious freedom / Tisa Wenger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wenger, Tisa Joy, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pueblo dance.

Pueblo Indians--Religion.

Pueblo Indians.

Pueblo Indians--Rites and ceremonies.

Christianity and culture--Southwest, New.

Christianity and culture.

Christianity and other religions--Southwest, New.

Christianity and other religions.

Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Racism.

Religious tolerance--Southwest, New.

Religious tolerance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University by the University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and therefore not eligible for the constitutional protections of the First Amendment. In this book, Tisa Wenger shows that cultural notions about what constitutes ""religion"" are crucial to public debates over religious freedom.In the 1920's, Pueblo Indian leaders in New Mexic

Contents:

Pueblos and Catholics in Protestant America

Cultural modernists and Indian religion

Land, sovereignty, and the modernist deployment of "religion"

Dance is (not) religion : the struggle for authority in Indian affairs

The implications of religious freedom

Religious freedom and the category of religion into the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908813-1-1

1-4696-0586-4

0-8078-9421-4

OCLC:

435639289