Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance (Vitality of Indigenous Religions)

<p>Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex – the most important Lakota ceremony – creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition.<br />
The book uses Walker’s primary source to conduct a reading of the Sun Dance in its nineteenth-century context through the lenses of Lakota metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, and ethics. The author argues that the Sun Dance constitutes a cosmic ethical drama in which persons of all types – human and nonhuman – come together in reciprocal actions and relationships. Drawing on contemporary animist theory and a perspectivist approach that uses Lakota worldview assumptions as the basis for analysis, the book enables a richer understanding of the Sun Dance and its role in the Lakota moral world.<br />
Offering a nuanced understanding that centers Lakota views of the sacred, this book will be relevant to scholars of religion and animism, and all those interested in Native American cultures and lifeways.</p>

Detwiler, Fritz

Reference

Routledge

Cosmology And Moral Community In The Lakota Sun Dance

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Walker, J. R. (james R.)

Detwiler, Fritz, 1947

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, Ny : Routledge, 2022

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