| | Around the Sacred Fire, Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era | |
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Speaker
| | James Treat |
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| | Date | | Jan 30, 2008 |
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| | Time | | 4:30 pm
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| | Location | | Illini Union Bookstore - Authors Corner |
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| | Cost | | Free |
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| | Sponsor | | Program for the Study of Religion & the Illini Union Bookstore |
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| | Contact | | Scott Baseler |
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| | E-Mail | | sbaseler@uiuc.edu |
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| | Phone | | 217 333-2050 |
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| | Event type | | Reading/Signing |
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| | Original Calendar | | Illini Union Bookstore Book Events |
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| | Views | | 73 |
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| Author James Treat will be reading several short passages from his latest book,
Around the Sacred Fire, Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era.
A question and answer period and book signing will follow the reading.
Around the Sacred Fire, Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era
is a compelling cultural history of intertribal activism centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference, an influential movement among native people in Canada and the U.S. during the Red Power era.
Founded in 1969, the Conference began as an attempt at organizing grassroots spiritual leaders who were concerned about the conflict between tribal and Christian traditions throughout Indian country.
By the mid-seventies thousands of people were gathering each summer in the foothills of the Rockies, where they participated in weeklong encampments promoting spiritual revitalization and religious self-determination.
The Indian Ecumenical Conference played a central role in stimulating cultural revival among native people, partly because Conference leaders strategized for social change in ways that differed from the militant groups.
Drawing on archival records, published accounts, oral histories, and field research, James Treat has written the first comprehensive study of this important but overlooked effort at postcolonial interreligious dialogue.
Professor Treat is currently an Associate Professor in the Program for the Study of Religion at the University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Around the Sacred Fire, Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era is published by University of Illinois Press |
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