# Indigenous Religions

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Category: Religion
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:12.339Z
Tags: religion, indigenous, religions

## Summary

A category of necessity, not of nature. The world's roughly 370 million indigenous people belong to thousands of distinct peoples — Yoruba, Maori, Lakota, Sami, Aboriginal Australian, Inuit, Ainu, Quechua, Hopi, Bantu, Sentinelese — each with its own cosmology, ritual life, kinship and land relations. Lumping them as a single religious category is itself a colonial gesture. We do it because the alternative is... Key sections include: Indigenous Religions.; Opening What "indigenous religion" names.; Chapter I The category itself.; Chapter II The scale of diversity.; Chapter III Animism, then and now.; Chapter IV The ancestors.; Chapter V Place and land.; Chapter VI Ritual specialists.; Chapter VII The oral transmission.; Chapter VIII Cosmologies..

## Slide Outline

1. Indigenous Religions.
2. Opening What "indigenous religion" names.
3. Chapter I The category itself.
4. Chapter II The scale of diversity.
5. Chapter III Animism, then and now.
6. Chapter IV The ancestors.
7. Chapter V Place and land.
8. Chapter VI Ritual specialists.
9. Chapter VII The oral transmission.
10. Chapter VIII Cosmologies.
11. Chapter IX Yoruba and the orisha tradition.
12. Chapter X Aboriginal Australian Dreaming.
13. Chapter XI Native American traditions.
14. Chapter XII Maori and Polynesia.
15. Chapter XIII Sami and Arctic traditions.
16. Chapter XIV Amazonian cosmologies.
17. Chapter XV The colonial disruption.
18. Chapter XVI Syncretism and survival.
19. Chapter XVII The revitalisation.
20. Chapter XVIII The ethics of study.
21. Chapter XIX Vine Deloria Jr.
22. Chapter XX Indigenous religions in 2026.
23. Chapter XXI Standing Rock and the present politics.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII The shelf.
26. Chapter XXIV Why they matter.
27. Chapter XXV The next decade.
28. Chapter XXVI A last word on category.
29. Chapter XXVII What outsiders can do.
30. The end of the deck.

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