Sarah Dee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1610040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Dee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Dee |
| SIGNATURE | DEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8788-3189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching with Native American Religions
How can we nurture greater respect, more nuanced understanding, more care-full critical thought, and deeper community engagement in teaching on Native American and Indigenous religious traditions? In this article, we explore ways to incorporate theories and methods from Native American and Indigenous studies into religious studies classrooms. Teaching with Native American religious traditions, rather than just about them, can lead to better under…
Paul Hillmer and Ryan Bean. Inappropriation
Religion, Race, and the Limit of Ethics
This article examines the study of Indigenous religions and ethics in the late‐nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. Over the past few decades, scholars have grappled with the colonial origins of religious studies. This essay focuses on the history of anthropological scholarship on Indigenous religions and the significance of this work for the growth of the academic study of religious and ethical systems. I first consider scholarship on Indig…
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)
Central to this journal’s focus are things—things of many sorts, from household objects to high art. Today, more so than when Material Religion published its first issue in 2005, scholars are accus
Stealing My Religion
Reviewed by: Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation by Liz Bucar Sarah Dees Liz Bucar, Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022) In Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, Liz Bucar offers a noteworthy contribution to conversations about religious and spiritual appropriation in the US and beyond. Bucar defines religious appropriation as instances…
A Bitter Poetics of Differentiation
The famed explorer, scientist, and U.S. government administrator John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) was a significant contributor to cultural evolutionary thinking in the late-nineteenth century. In addition to scientific publications, he also – curiously – used the genre of poetry as an outlet for his ideas. This article analyzes two of Powell’s obscure published poems. I argue that his poetry is significant, not for its literary value, but for what…
Before and Beyond the New Age
The appropriation of spiritual and medical practices has become a significant topic among scholars and practitioners of Native American religions. Scholars often focus on New Age religion as the primary realm in which the commodification and appropriation of Indigenous religious beliefs, practices, and objects has occurred. Since the 1960s, practitioners of New Age religion have drawn on an eclectic array of spiritual practices, including those o…
New Religions and Old Ways
The Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma is a sovereign Indigenous nation with historic ties to what is now the Southern Plains region of the United States. Kiowas have a distinct history, language, culture, and religion. The nineteenth century brought significant changes to practitioners of Kiowa religious traditions. In October of 1867, members of the Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho nations signed the Medicine Lodge Trea…
Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath
Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), xi + 364 pp. $135 (cloth), $38.95 (paper), $37.99 (ebook)
Messianic Fulfillments
Book Review| January 01 2021 Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America Hayes Peter Mauro. Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Sarah Dees Sarah Dees Reviewed by Sarah Dees is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. She is a scholar of American and Indigenous religions. Search for other works…
Defend the Sacred
Journal Article Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. By Michael McNally Get access Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. By Michael McNally. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 305pp. $26.95 paper. Sarah Dees Sarah Dees Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8788-3189 Search for other works by this a…
Native American Religions
Native American religious traditions encompass a diverse array of beliefs, practices, and features of material culture and society that reflect and shape individual experiences and communal life among Indigenous communities in what is today the United States. While Native American religious traditions have long been the subject of scholarly inquiry, a field of study dedicated specifically to this topic only emerged in the mid-20th century. Becaus…
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Numerous studies have explored ceremonial traditions that include the use of peyote, including author Stacy B. Schaefer’s previous research on peyote traditions among the Huichol communities of central Mexico. In Amada’s Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas, Schaefer, professor emerita at California State University, Chico, offers a distinct contribution to scholarly literature on ceremonial peyote use and the Native American Church b…
An Equation of Language and Spirit
Scholars of religion frequently distinguish between the religions practiced by American Indians and non-Natives, raising a question about the role of religion in constructing and preserving notions of human difference. The present article locates key assumptions about the inherent distinction of Indigenous religions in early anthropological and linguistic research on American Indians. I demonstrate that as anthropologists studied Native cultures …
Devoted to Death
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint." The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 26(2), pp. 261–262
An Equation of Language and Spirit
Scholars of religion frequently distinguish between the religions practiced by American Indians and non-Natives, raising a question about the role of religion in constructing and preserving notions of human difference. The present article locates key assumptions about the inherent distinction of Indigenous religions in early anthropological and linguistic research on American Indians. I demonstrate that as anthropologists studied Native cultures …
Devoted to Death
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint." The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 26(2), pp. 261–262
An Equation of Language and Spirit
Scholars of religion frequently distinguish between the religions practiced by American Indians and non-Natives, raising a question about the role of religion in constructing and preserving notions of human difference. The present article locates key assumptions about the inherent distinction of Indigenous religions in early anthropological and linguistic research on American Indians. I demonstrate that as anthropologists studied Native cultures …
Amada's Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas
Numerous studies have explored ceremonial traditions that include the use of peyote, including author Stacy B. Schaefer’s previous research on peyote traditions among the Huichol communities of central Mexico. In Amada’s Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas, Schaefer, professor emerita at California State University, Chico, offers a distinct contribution to scholarly literature on ceremonial peyote use and the Native American Church b…
Native American Religions
Native American religious traditions encompass a diverse array of beliefs, practices, and features of material culture and society that reflect and shape individual experiences and communal life among Indigenous communities in what is today the United States. While Native American religious traditions have long been the subject of scholarly inquiry, a field of study dedicated specifically to this topic only emerged in the mid-20th century. Becaus…
Messianic Fulfillments
Book Review| January 01 2021 Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America Hayes Peter Mauro. Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Sarah Dees Sarah Dees Reviewed by Sarah Dees is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. She is a scholar of American and Indigenous religions. Search for other works…
Defend the Sacred
Journal Article Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. By Michael McNally Get access Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. By Michael McNally. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 305pp. $26.95 paper. Sarah Dees Sarah Dees Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8788-3189 Search for other works by this a…
New Religions and Old Ways
The Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma is a sovereign Indigenous nation with historic ties to what is now the Southern Plains region of the United States. Kiowas have a distinct history, language, culture, and religion. The nineteenth century brought significant changes to practitioners of Kiowa religious traditions. In October of 1867, members of the Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho nations signed the Medicine Lodge Trea…
Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath
Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), xi + 364 pp. $135 (cloth), $38.95 (paper), $37.99 (ebook)
Stealing My Religion
Reviewed by: Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation by Liz Bucar Sarah Dees Liz Bucar, Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022) In Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, Liz Bucar offers a noteworthy contribution to conversations about religious and spiritual appropriation in the US and beyond. Bucar defines religious appropriation as instances…
A Bitter Poetics of Differentiation
The famed explorer, scientist, and U.S. government administrator John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) was a significant contributor to cultural evolutionary thinking in the late-nineteenth century. In addition to scientific publications, he also – curiously – used the genre of poetry as an outlet for his ideas. This article analyzes two of Powell’s obscure published poems. I argue that his poetry is significant, not for its literary value, but for what…
Before and Beyond the New Age
The appropriation of spiritual and medical practices has become a significant topic among scholars and practitioners of Native American religions. Scholars often focus on New Age religion as the primary realm in which the commodification and appropriation of Indigenous religious beliefs, practices, and objects has occurred. Since the 1960s, practitioners of New Age religion have drawn on an eclectic array of spiritual practices, including those o…
Religion, Race, and the Limit of Ethics
This article examines the study of Indigenous religions and ethics in the late‐nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. Over the past few decades, scholars have grappled with the colonial origins of religious studies. This essay focuses on the history of anthropological scholarship on Indigenous religions and the significance of this work for the growth of the academic study of religious and ethical systems. I first consider scholarship on Indig…
Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)
Central to this journal’s focus are things—things of many sorts, from household objects to high art. Today, more so than when Material Religion published its first issue in 2005, scholars are accus
Paul Hillmer and Ryan Bean. Inappropriation
Teaching with Native American Religions
How can we nurture greater respect, more nuanced understanding, more care-full critical thought, and deeper community engagement in teaching on Native American and Indigenous religious traditions? In this article, we explore ways to incorporate theories and methods from Native American and Indigenous studies into religious studies classrooms. Teaching with Native American religious traditions, rather than just about them, can lead to better under…
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