ABSTRACT
First Published in 1999. For This Land, edited and with an introduction by James Treat, brings together over thirty years of the work of Vine Deloria, Jr., regarded as one of the most important living Native American figures. For three decades, Deloria has offered substantive and persistent contributions to understanding the complexity of religion in America. In uis writings he recognizes the spiritual desperation and religious breakdown in the contemporary situation, and provides the groundwork to get people to examine what they actually believe and how they must put those beliefs into practice. 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. For This Land offers a distinctive approach to comprehending human existence from one of the leading critics of mainstream American thought.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |50 pages
White Church, Red Power
chapter |9 pages
Missionaries and the Religious Vacuum
chapter |5 pages
The Theological Dimension of the Indian Protest Movement
chapter |8 pages
Religion and Revolution Among American Indians
chapter |7 pages
Non-Violence in American Society
chapter |7 pages
The Churches and Cultural Change
part |49 pages
Liberating Theology
chapter |5 pages
A Violated Covenant
chapter |7 pages
An Open Letter to The Heads of the Christian Churches in America
chapter |8 pages
It Is a Good Day to Die
chapter |8 pages
On Liberation
chapter |10 pages
Vision and Community
part |43 pages
Worldviews in Collision
chapter |8 pages
Religion and the Modern American Indian
chapter |5 pages
Native American Spirituality
chapter |10 pages
Civilization and Isolation
part |66 pages
Habits of the State
chapter |12 pages
American Indians and the Moral Community
chapter |11 pages
Sacred Lands and Religious Freedom
part |54 pages
Old Ways in a New World