| Where the Two Roads Meet Contributor(s): Vecsey, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0268019576 ISBN-13: 9780268019570 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1999 Annotation: Vecsey, a professor of religion and Native American studies at Colgate University, concludes his trilogy on Native American Catholicism with a study of how Indian Catholics have tried to follow the route of two separate traditions, each with its own expectations and identities. He examines the lives of American Indian Catholics who have been leaders in their communities and in the Church and considers how these men and women have brought together their Indian and Catholic identities to accomplish a cultural and religious syncretism within themselves. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| Dewey: 282.708 |
| LCCN: 99022335 |
| Series: American Indian Catholics |
| Physical Information: 1.42" H x 6.37" W x 9.33" (1.88 lbs) 456 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Where the Two Roads Meet considers how Indian Catholics have tried to follow the route of two separate traditions, each with its own expectations, patterns, and identities. Vecsey examines the lives of American Indian Catholics who have been leaders in their communities and in the Church and considers how these extraordinary men and women have brought together their Indian and Catholic identities to accomplish a cultural and religious syncretism within themselves. This volume, the third in the American Indian Catholics series, scrutinizes two recent developments in Native American Catholic ministry--the Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings that took place in the 1970s at the Lakota Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, and the National Tekakwitha Conference, created to foster American Indian Catholic inculturation. Vecsey demonstrates how these developments have encouraged Church personnel to engage in interfaith dialogue with Indian religious exponents. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vecsey, Christopher: - Christopher Vecsey is Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of the Humanities and Native American Studies and Religion at Colgate University. He is the author of On the Padres' Trail (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997) and The Paths of Kateri's Kin (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998), volumes 1 and 2 in the American Indian Catholics series |