Lee Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 480489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6173-1910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Supernal Dreaming: On Myth and Metaphysics
The following article is an exploration of supernal dreaming, a type of dream that engages the dreamer as a profound, participatory, and often revelatory event. Dream types are not well developed in dream research; this article contributes to the development of a more typological approach to dream analysis. Four dream types are presented and contextualized with reference to their metaphysical and ontological significance. The types discussed are …
Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview
American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation theory in the American context, giving a brief historical survey. Sources surveyed begin with Native American traditions, and then move to immigrant traditions based in Western Esotericism, Christianity, Judaism, missionary Hinduism and Buddhism, Spiritualism, Theosop…
Walking The Line: Pipe and Sweat Ceremonies in Prison
This paper is an overview of the movement among Native American prisoners to have access to native religious practices, specifically pipe ceremonies, sweats, and prayer and drum sessions in prison. These practices form the basis of a new movement that supports a wide range of native spiritual traditions, organized around a few basic ceremonies now recognized as primary expressions of native religious identity. Since the early 1970s, this movement…
Sending a Voice, Seeking a Place
A ccording to the Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk, hambleyapi , or “crying for a vision,” predates even the use of the sacred pipe and is the center of Plains Indian spirituality. This emphasis on dreams and visions acquired either spontaneously or through a vision quest is one of the central and unifying factors among many Native American religious traditions. The very earliest historical records all bear eloquent witness to the long-standing…
The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice
Journal Article The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice and Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century Get access The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice. By Bucko Raymond A.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. vii + 336 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century. By Feraca Stephen E.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska…
Response: American Indian Religious Traditions and the Academic Study of Religion
Response: American Indian Religious Traditions and the Academic Study of Religion Get access Lee Irwin Lee Irwin College of Charleston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 4, WINTER 1998, Pages 887–892, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/66.4.887 Published: 01 December 1998
The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains
Freedom, Law, and Prophecy: A Brief History of Native American Religious Resistance
In August 1978, American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) was passed by Congress as a guarantee of constitutional protection of First Amendment rights for Native Americans. This act was passed as an attempt to redress past wrongs by federal government or its agents. That history of legal suppression was due to the lack of a clear, comprehensive and consistent Federal policy [which] has often resulted in abridgement ofreligious freedom for tra…
The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence
Introduction: Themes in Native American Spirituality
The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains
The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians
Journal Article The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians and The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains Get access The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians. By Johnson Sandy, photographs by Dan Budnik. (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. 237 pp. Illustrations. $20.00, paper.)The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains. By Irwin Lee. …
On reciprocity and mutual reflection in the study of Native American religions
Based on field research among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, this essay explores problems that broadly can be defined as postmodern reflections on the study of religion. In dealing with the religions of living cultures and especially with cultures that have been subject to colonialism, students of religion are faced with the difficult issues of orientalism, the construction of the exotic, the representation or misrepresentation of other cultures, a…
Dreams, Theory, and Culture: The Plains Vision Quest Paradigm
The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction
Imagine Ourselves Richly: Mythic Narratives of North American Indians
Contesting world views: Dreams among the Huron and Jesuits
During the second quarter of the 17th-century, Jesuits and Hurons engaged in a debate over the importance and centrality of dreams. From the Jesuits' perspective, dreams were peripheral and often opposed to Christian theology. For the Huron, dreams were a central feature of their religious practice and a primary source of both personal knowledge and social empowerment. Contrasting these two understandings of dreaming, this essay explores the litt…
Cherokee Healing: Myth, Dreams, and Medicine
The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing
For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the la…
Divinity and Salvation: The Great Goddesses of China
Though Chinese mythology and religion have been dominated by male gods and masters, the presence of female divinities has always been a part of Chinese folk belief. These various divinities, usually identified with the feminine principle of moist, dark, receptive nature, constitute a somewhat obscure pantheon of water sprites, dragon ladies, snake queens, moon-goddesses, and rulers of heaven and earth. Among them may be recognized four divinities…
Myth, language and ontology among the Huron
Les Jesuites ont recueilli la tradition orale des Hurons, mais en meconnaissant la langue et l'aspect non verbal de la transmission des savoirs
Freedom, Law, and Prophecy: A Brief History of Native American Religious Resistance
In August 1978, American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) was passed by Congress as a guarantee of constitutional protection of First Amendment rights for Native Americans. This act was passed as an attempt to redress past wrongs by federal government or its agents. That history of legal suppression was due to the lack of a clear, comprehensive and consistent Federal policy [which] has often resulted in abridgement ofreligious freedom for tra…
Cherokee Healing: Myth, Dreams, and Medicine
The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing
For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the la…
Dreams, Theory, and Culture: The Plains Vision Quest Paradigm
The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains
On reciprocity and mutual reflection in the study of Native American religions
Based on field research among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, this essay explores problems that broadly can be defined as postmodern reflections on the study of religion. In dealing with the religions of living cultures and especially with cultures that have been subject to colonialism, students of religion are faced with the difficult issues of orientalism, the construction of the exotic, the representation or misrepresentation of other cultures, a…
Myth, language and ontology among the Huron
Les Jesuites ont recueilli la tradition orale des Hurons, mais en meconnaissant la langue et l'aspect non verbal de la transmission des savoirs
Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview
American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation theory in the American context, giving a brief historical survey. Sources surveyed begin with Native American traditions, and then move to immigrant traditions based in Western Esotericism, Christianity, Judaism, missionary Hinduism and Buddhism, Spiritualism, Theosop…
Contesting world views: Dreams among the Huron and Jesuits
During the second quarter of the 17th-century, Jesuits and Hurons engaged in a debate over the importance and centrality of dreams. From the Jesuits' perspective, dreams were peripheral and often opposed to Christian theology. For the Huron, dreams were a central feature of their religious practice and a primary source of both personal knowledge and social empowerment. Contrasting these two understandings of dreaming, this essay explores the litt…
Divinity and Salvation: The Great Goddesses of China
Though Chinese mythology and religion have been dominated by male gods and masters, the presence of female divinities has always been a part of Chinese folk belief. These various divinities, usually identified with the feminine principle of moist, dark, receptive nature, constitute a somewhat obscure pantheon of water sprites, dragon ladies, snake queens, moon-goddesses, and rulers of heaven and earth. Among them may be recognized four divinities…
Myth, language and ontology among the Huron
Les Jesuites ont recueilli la tradition orale des Hurons, mais en meconnaissant la langue et l'aspect non verbal de la transmission des savoirs
The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing
For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the la…
Contesting world views: Dreams among the Huron and Jesuits
During the second quarter of the 17th-century, Jesuits and Hurons engaged in a debate over the importance and centrality of dreams. From the Jesuits' perspective, dreams were peripheral and often opposed to Christian theology. For the Huron, dreams were a central feature of their religious practice and a primary source of both personal knowledge and social empowerment. Contrasting these two understandings of dreaming, this essay explores the litt…
Cherokee Healing: Myth, Dreams, and Medicine
The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction
Imagine Ourselves Richly: Mythic Narratives of North American Indians
On reciprocity and mutual reflection in the study of Native American religions
Based on field research among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, this essay explores problems that broadly can be defined as postmodern reflections on the study of religion. In dealing with the religions of living cultures and especially with cultures that have been subject to colonialism, students of religion are faced with the difficult issues of orientalism, the construction of the exotic, the representation or misrepresentation of other cultures, a…
Dreams, Theory, and Culture: The Plains Vision Quest Paradigm
The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians
Journal Article The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians and The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains Get access The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians. By Johnson Sandy, photographs by Dan Budnik. (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. 237 pp. Illustrations. $20.00, paper.)The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains. By Irwin Lee. …
The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence
Introduction: Themes in Native American Spirituality
The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains
Freedom, Law, and Prophecy: A Brief History of Native American Religious Resistance
In August 1978, American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) was passed by Congress as a guarantee of constitutional protection of First Amendment rights for Native Americans. This act was passed as an attempt to redress past wrongs by federal government or its agents. That history of legal suppression was due to the lack of a clear, comprehensive and consistent Federal policy [which] has often resulted in abridgement ofreligious freedom for tra…
Response: American Indian Religious Traditions and the Academic Study of Religion
Response: American Indian Religious Traditions and the Academic Study of Religion Get access Lee Irwin Lee Irwin College of Charleston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 4, WINTER 1998, Pages 887–892, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/66.4.887 Published: 01 December 1998
The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains
The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice
Journal Article The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice and Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century Get access The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice. By Bucko Raymond A.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. vii + 336 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century. By Feraca Stephen E.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska…
Sending a Voice, Seeking a Place
A ccording to the Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk, hambleyapi , or “crying for a vision,” predates even the use of the sacred pipe and is the center of Plains Indian spirituality. This emphasis on dreams and visions acquired either spontaneously or through a vision quest is one of the central and unifying factors among many Native American religious traditions. The very earliest historical records all bear eloquent witness to the long-standing…
Walking The Line: Pipe and Sweat Ceremonies in Prison
This paper is an overview of the movement among Native American prisoners to have access to native religious practices, specifically pipe ceremonies, sweats, and prayer and drum sessions in prison. These practices form the basis of a new movement that supports a wide range of native spiritual traditions, organized around a few basic ceremonies now recognized as primary expressions of native religious identity. Since the early 1970s, this movement…
Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview
American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation theory in the American context, giving a brief historical survey. Sources surveyed begin with Native American traditions, and then move to immigrant traditions based in Western Esotericism, Christianity, Judaism, missionary Hinduism and Buddhism, Spiritualism, Theosop…
Supernal Dreaming: On Myth and Metaphysics
The following article is an exploration of supernal dreaming, a type of dream that engages the dreamer as a profound, participatory, and often revelatory event. Dream types are not well developed in dream research; this article contributes to the development of a more typological approach to dream analysis. Four dream types are presented and contextualized with reference to their metaphysical and ontological significance. The types discussed are …
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