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Rituals, Wood, Bone, and Stone: Material Approaches to Indigenous Religions


 
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1. Title Title of document Rituals, Wood, Bone, and Stone: Material Approaches to Indigenous Religions - Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Amy Whitehead; Massey University; New Zealand
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) indigenous religion; animism; lived religion; material religion; Nurit Bird-David; ritual
 
5. Subject Subject classification indigenous religion; folklore; ritual; animism; environment and religion
 
6. Description Abstract Academic attention to Indigenous religions has grown steadily since the 1990’s in parallel with increasing attention to the material dimension of religions. In fact, the influential scholarship of Graham Harvey with his emphasis new animism research, lived religion, and material religions have generated new life and new directions for research for the academic Study of Religions. In the spirit of salutation, this chapter highlights the influence and impact of Harvey’s work by operationalising (or, putting to use), his new animism/personhood research by engaging with selected Indigenous religious practices and perspectives in ways that emphasize their usefulness. Harvey’s research, along with that of scholars such as Nurit Bird-David have not only inspired new theoretical and methodological directions for researchers and students, particularly those from non-indigenous traditions, to re-think and structurally re-organise how we understand, approach, and address different (religious) worlds (including ‘Western’ ones). The chapter, therefore, engages with Harvey’s new animism research to advance methodological approaches about indigenous religions, rituals and religious material cultures more broadly, offering a Harvey-inspired material, methodological approach to ‘things’ as tangible/visible mediums on different ontological perspectives/religious worlds.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 01-May-2025
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/45196
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.45196
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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