About this title: Deloria, a prominent Native American educator, lawyer, and philosopher, has updated his classic work on native religion. In God is Red Deloria argues convincingly that Christianity has failed today's society, and describes basic tenets that underlie Native religions. His other works include Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties and Custer Died for Your Sins.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fine. 1555911765 Fulcrum trade paperback, 1994, clean/tight, No marks/tears or creases...Fine (like new)...Bubble-wrapped and mailed in a Box w/delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781555911768ISBN:1555911765
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Several pages and the wraps are creased at the fore corners; wraps have edge wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 313 p. Religion and Spirituality. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Group
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781555911768ISBN:1555911765
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. new. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Religion and Spirituality. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Date Published: 1994-03
ISBN-13:9781555911768ISBN:1555911765
Description: New. From the shelves of my store. Light shelf wear. Great book for a reasonable and competitive price. Buy risk free and enjoy. I will ship promptly in a bubble wrap mailer. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781555911768ISBN:1555911765
Description: Very Good. No spinal creasing. No store stamps or marks. Deloria, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, offers a revised edition of his 1972 study of Native American religion. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Religion and Spirituality. Audience: General/trade. Oversized softcover trade paperback, Near Fine Condition (Almost like new! ), 313 pages (L2). read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Religion and Spirituality. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, CO
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781555911768ISBN:1555911765
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 313 pp., biblio., index; 23 cm. Updated. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. The Indian Movement; 2. The Indians of the American Imagination; 3. The Religious Challenge; 4. Thinking in Time and Space; 5. The Problem of Creation; 6. The Concept of History; 7. The Spatial Problem of History; 8. Origin of Religion; 9. Natural and Hybrid Peoples; 10. Death and Religion; 11. Human Personality; 12. The Group; 13. Christianity and Contemporary American Culture; ... read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 1992 soft cover, former college text sticker on back, otherwise, very clean and crisp pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 313 pages. Religion and Spirituality. Audience: General/trade. 000019 read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Amercan Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781555919047ISBN:1555919049
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. North Amercan Press, 1993 Gently used, former library book (Holy Cross Abbey, Canon City, Colorado) with usual markings. Hard Cover. Very Good/ Ex-Library. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: North Amer Pr, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781555911768ISBN:1555911765
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. The first edition of God Is Red, published in 1972, was the vanguard in promoting the recognition of sacred places. Now, two decades later, as environmental awareness continues to grow, Vine Deloria, Jr., reminds us to learn "that we are a part of nature, not a transcendent species with no responsibility to the natural world. " Deloria, a prominent Native American author, scholar, lawyer, and philosopher, has updated God Is Red, his classic work on Native ... read more
"Not only is this book a great intro to Native American philosophy and history, but Deloria speaks eloquently about discrepancies between native and other faiths without being too harsh or disrespectful. A very informative piece which helped me better understand issues that other native literature (both fictitious and not) touch upon."
"Angry and polemical. Deloria has some painfully valid points, but he throws the baby out with the bath water along with the tub, shampoo and shower curtain. In relegating all but native religion to a nightmarish Oral Roberts/Jerry Fallwell bogeyman of conservative evangelicalism, he damns his own thesis which, ostensibly, calls for respect and mutual flexibility. I don't deny the horrors that American Christianity has brought upon the First Peoples, but I do resent Deloria's assumption that Christianity is merely the sum of its worst adherents."
"...for anyone studying indigeny, energetics, indigenous spirituality, christianity, European religious history, culture, philosophy. This is a fundamental work in understanding the relationship of Native American/indigenous spirituality and religious concepts and their relationship to european christianity and the peoples that carried these two traditions. Deloria makes a clear and concise case for the reevaluation of the efficacy and function of christianity outside of its cultural space and in all of the geographic and cultural spaces it has been forced into. Christianity, in Deloria's critique, clearly becomes a brickish template slammed down upon the more culturally congruent and functional spiritual and religious concepts and practices that were created and practiced by Native Americans on Turtle Island (north America) as opposed to the avenue of ultimate salvation that christians have characterized it as. Deloria shows this to not only be fraudulent, but impossible because of the very nature of spiritual/religious creation by humans in time and space. "God Is Red" is a valiant representation of spirituality /religion as a functional, organic cultural production and relationship with Spirit, not merely a dogmatic exercise and tool for socio-political, psycho-sexual and imperial control.
Deloria's calcuation of the culturally divergent conceptions and uses of space and time shine forth as academic genius from his pages. This is key to his thesis.
If "God Is Red" is not on your reading list, your understanding of indigenous spirituality and religion may not be complete. It should be read in every christian seminary, school and missionary headquarters. If christian missionaries and developers of missiology would understand (largely a matter of openness and choice, not intelligence, of course), embrace and live the truths of Deloria's work in this text, mission work and other forms of proselytizing would cease for the betterment of all those whose cultures have been and are still yet to be depowered and destroyed by the unGodly superimpositiion of christian concepts and practices upon people's for whom these displaced and contentious ideas and lifeways were never meant."
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