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Author Brown, Joseph Epes.

Title Teaching spirits : understanding Native American religious traditions / Joseph Epes Brown with Emily Cousins.

Publication Info. Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  299.7 B878T    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-132) and index.
Contents Back to back -- Changeless at the heart of change : concepts of time and process -- Fixing a center : Native American sacred geography -- Silence, the word, and the sacred : evoking the sacred through language and song -- "There is no word for art" : the creative process -- Relationship and reciprocity : a metaphysics of nature -- A unity of experience : purification, expansion, and identity through ritual.
Subject Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America -- Religion.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Religion.
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
Subject Indian mythology -- North America.
Local Subject Spirituality -- Indigenous -- North America.
Added Author Cousins, Emily, 1969-
ISBN 0195138759 alkaline paper
9780195138757 alkaline paper
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