Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009 Contributor(s): Denison, Brandi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803276745 ISBN-13: 9780803276741 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Religion | History - History | Native American |
Dewey: 979.004 |
LCCN: 2016041536 |
Series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 330 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879-2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America--twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisement by tracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This shift was made possible through the development and deployment of an idealized American religion based on Enlightenment ideals of individualism, Victorian sensibilities about the female body, and an emerging respect for diversity and commitment to religious pluralism that was wholly dependent on a separation of economics from religion. Brandi Denison is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of North Florida. |