![]() Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. ![]() An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, "Dream Catchers" offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion. ![]() ![]() Jenkins examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places notes that many "white Indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty and asks why a government founded on religious freedom tried to eradicate native religions in the last century - and what this says about how we define religion. ![]() He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews, and the influential works of Frank Waters, and he explores the New Age paraphernalia found in places like Sedona, Arizona, including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. ![]()
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