“The Land is Always Stalking Us”

This article is a response to Willie Jennings’s book The Christian Imagination and takes a brief look, using the case study of the Western Apache, at how Native Americans conceptualize the idea of sacred land and memory. It makes the argument that Pentecostalism has to accept Native understandings o...

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Main Author: Tarango, Angela (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Pneuma
Year: 2014, Volume: 36, Issue: 3, Pages: 397-406
Further subjects:B Native Americans Pentecostalism missions Western Apache land race memory Willie Jennings Doctrine of Discovery Keith Basso
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:This article is a response to Willie Jennings’s book The Christian Imagination and takes a brief look, using the case study of the Western Apache, at how Native Americans conceptualize the idea of sacred land and memory. It makes the argument that Pentecostalism has to accept Native understandings of land in order to create a truly indigenous form of Christianity and to move beyond ethnocentric formations of race.
ISSN:1570-0747
Contains:In: Pneuma
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700747-03603043