Indigenous Religious Traditions
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Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea that the Indians lacked a religion. . . . Rather than being without a religion, every act of his life was according to divine prompting.” The difficulties in discussing “indigenous religious traditions” also lie in the fact that, Introduction
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