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SUMMARY:Around the Sacred Fire\, Native Religious Activism in the Red Pow
 er Era
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DESCRIPTION:Author James Treat will be reading several short passages fro
 m his latest book\, Around the Sacred Fire\, Native Religious Activism i
 n 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 Erais a compelling cultural history of intertribal activi
 sm centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference\, an influential movemen
 t among native people in Canada and the U.S. during the Red Power era.Fo
 unded in 1969\, the Conference began as an attempt at organizing grassro
 ots spiritual leaders who were concerned about the conflict between trib
 al and Christian traditions throughout Indian country.By the mid-seventi
 es thousands of people were gathering each summer in the foothills of th
 e Rockies\, where they participated in weeklong encampments promoting sp
 iritual revitalization and religious self-determination.The Indian Ecume
 nical Conference played a central role in stimulating cultural revival a
 mong native people\, partly because Conference leaders strategized for s
 ocial change in ways that differed from the militant groups.Drawing on a
 rchival records\, published accounts\, oral histories\, and field resear
 ch\, James Treat has written the first comprehensive study of this impor
 tant but overlooked effort at postcolonial interreligious dialogue.Profe
 ssor Treat is currently an Associate Professor in the Program for the St
 udy of Religion at the University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Around
  the Sacred Fire\, Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era is pub
 lished by University of Illinois Press
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LOCATION:Illini Union Bookstore - Authors Corner
CATEGORIES:Reading/Signing
CONTACT:Scott Baseler 217 333-2050
ORGANIZER:sbaseler@uiuc.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?key=200001012000010178923
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