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...Katherine M. B. Osburn Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 . By Brandi Denison . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the American Philosophical Society , 2017 . xvii +304 pp., illustrations, maps, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $55.00...

...Brian D. Carroll Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England . By Romero R. Todd . ( Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2011 . xiii + 255 pp., list of illustrations, acknowledgments, preface, index . $80.00 cloth...

..., gender, and religion. Pfister divides his book into three principal parts. The first part addresses Roe Cloud’s Yale education and how a young American Indian student might have responded to Yale’s elite social and educational environ- Book Reviews...

...Sarahh Scher Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity . By Hyland Sabine . ( University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . xi + 131 pp., preface, acknowledgments, map, appendix, glossary, works cited, index . $24.95 paper...

...Christine Mathias Religión y poder en las misiones de Guaraníes . By Wilde Guillermo . ( Buenos Aires : Editorial Sb , 2009 . 509 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, maps, illustrations, bibliography . $49.00 paper.) Copyright 2012 by American Society...

... on the missionary activities of herself and Laura. Caswell and the Wrights intended to convert the “deluded” followers of the Handsome Lake religion to the “Jesus Way,” and they expressed no uncertainties about the justness of their enterprise, even in the face of considerable defiance. One...

... on the missionary activities of herself and Laura. Caswell and the Wrights intended to convert the “deluded” followers of the Handsome Lake religion to the “Jesus Way,” and they expressed no uncertainties about the justness of their enterprise, even in the face of considerable defiance. One...

.... Greenfield, Sidney, and Andre Droogers, eds. 2001 Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas . New York: Rowman and Littlefield. Hall, Stuart 1996 Introduction: Who Needs `Identity'? In Questions of Cultural Identity . S. Hall and P. Du Gay, eds. Pp. 1 –17...

..., the Lakota practice of the Ghost Dance religion holds a firm grip on scholarly and popular imagi- nations. In the past decade alone, scholars have sought to incorporate the Lakota views of the movement more fully, examined the experience of the Lakota Ghost Dancers as performers in the Wild West shows...

...Garry Sparks Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K’iche’ Community . By MacKenzie C. James . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2016 . xi+368 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index . $34.95 paper.) Copyright...

..., Religion, and Culture Mary-Ellen Kelm, Simon Fraser University “I Choose Life”: Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World. By Maureen Trudelle Schwartz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xi + 380 pp., preface, introduction, appendix, notes...

...Terry Rugeley Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing . Edited by Paton Diana and Forde Maarit . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . 354 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, afterword . $27.95 paper.) Copyright 2015...

...Jessica Joyce Christie Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia's Indigenous Intellectuals . By Ari Waskar . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . xiii + 262 pp., acknowledgments, two appendixes, notes, glossary, selected bibliography, index . $89.95 cloth...

...Julia G. Young Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico . By Fallaw Ben . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . xx + 329 pp., glossary, notes, introduction, bibliography, index . $25.95 paper.) Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016...

...”: Kinship, Religion, and Black-­ Indian Relations in Nineteenth-Century­ Michigan Christina Dickerson-­Cousin, Independent Scholar Abstract. Scholars of black and Indian relations typically characterize the nineteenth century as a period of severe interracial tension...

...Brian Stross Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala . By Deuss Krystyna . ( London : Guatemalan Maya Centre , 2007 . 334 pp., preface, introduction, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $55.00 paper.) Copyright 2014...

...Arthur Remillard The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West . By Jennifer Graber . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xxii +288 pp., acknowledgments, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 hardcover.) Copyright...

... of Christianity’s influence on culture, treating introduced religion as an external imposition that obscures the true object of inquiry. Opposing that approach in his history of two hundred years of Russian Orthodox pres- ence in Southeast Alaska, Sergei Kan asserts that Christianity is a force that must...

..., bibliography, index, illustrations, map. $34.95 cloth.) 2004 Book Reviews 203 Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala. By Martha Few. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xiv + 188 pp., preface...

... religion des Mayas: Du panthéisme au panthéon. By Claude-François Baudez. (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 2002. 467 pp., table of contents, glossary, bibliography. Euro35.00 paper.) Stephen Houston, Brigham Young University A vexing problem in Mesoamerican studies is the nature of divinity. Were ‘‘gods...