Muscogee Creek Spirituality and Meaning of Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea C Walker (0000-0002-8859-7272, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, corresponding author), Tim Thompson (0000-0003-3265-524X, Muscogee Creek Nation, Okmulgee, Oklahoma) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-146 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/om.59.2.c |
| PMID | 19697716 |
| OpenAlex | W2058179590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
This qualitative, collective case study involves interviews with 27 members of the Muscogee Creek Tribe to explore spirituality as related to death and bereavement. Results yielded that Creeks are generally open to the existence of inexplicable supernatural events. Creek spirituality encompasses awareness of spiritual beings, both good and bad. Participants believed that spirits exist alongside people and can send and receive messages from people to guide and inform them. Creeks have ongoing, though not constant, relationships with loved ones and others who have died. Spiritual attunement can occur at every point in the life cycle but seems to be especially astute in children and animals. Results are discussed in terms of continuing bonds and meaning making perspectives
Attunement · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Meaning (existential · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Spirituality · Transcendence (philosophy · Tribe · Anthropology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
Attachment in Coping with Bereavement
Are They Hallucinations or are They Real? The Spirituality of Deathbed and Near-Death Visions
Authors' Response
Continuing Conversation about Continuing Bonds
Grieving in the Muscogee Creek Tribe
The Dual Process Model of Coping With Bereavement
Bereavement Rituals in the Muscogee Creek Tribe
A Sacred Path
Some Notes on Political Theory and American Indian Values
Mourning and Meaning
Introduction
The poetics and spirituality of dreaming
Separate People
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |