For This Land: Writings on Religion in America ebook

Vine Deloria is one of the great interpreters of religion in America.

If European settlers in the Americas are ever to be more than nomadic vandals it will be because we have heard voices like Deloria's calling us not just to respect our environment but to build genuine communities in which respect for the land and respect for each other are mutually reinforcing. Vine Deloria is one of the great interpreters of religion in America.

Vine Deloria, J. a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota and former director of the National Congress of American Indians, is Professor of History at the University of Colorado. He is the author of numerous books, including Red Earth, White Lies (1995), God is Red (1973), and Custer Died for your Sins (1969). James Treatteaches in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma.

Vine Deloria is one of the great interpreters of religion in America.

Though controversial, Deloria's writings have challenged continually the ways that religious thinkers understand the relationship between the practices of American religion native and importe. eloria's forceful and important essays deserve wide reading. - Publishers Weekly . If one can remain a Christian after reading this book, he/she might be a pretty good on. - - James Cone, Union Theological Seminary.

Treat, . Deloria, J. . Treat, J. (E. Worshiping the Golden Calf: Freedom of Religion in Scalia's America (1991). Introduction to Vision Quest (1994). First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Introduction: An American Critique of Religion.

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The essays in this collection express Deloria's concern for the religious dimensions and implications of human existence. His writings are engaged within a theoretical system of physical, not ideological, space, and ultimately give voice to this intellectual passion by calling into question our controversial religious institutions, commitments, worldviews, freedoms and experiences.

Vine Victor Deloria, Jr. was an American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist. Vine Victor Deloria, Jr. He was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped generate national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement. From 1964–1967, he had served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, i Vine Victor Deloria, Jr.

Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13:9780415921152. James Treat (2013). For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, ., Routledge. Vine Deloria Jr. (2016). God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, . 8, Fulcrum Publishing. Responsibility, Lying, Waiting. 70. When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. Spiritual, Effort, Land.