60. What is a sweat lodge?
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes - Molly Bassett
Suzanne Owen [+ ]
Leeds Trinity University
Suzanne Owen obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and published her
thesis as The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality (Continuum 2008). She is currently Reader in Religious Studies at Leeds Trinity University in the UK researching indigeneity in Newfoundland and British Druidry
Description
This essay describes common features of a sweat lodge and sweat lodge ceremony, how it often functions in a Native American community, and discusses an example of a misappropriation.