Introduction: Kiowa culture in the nineteenth century -- Christianity, peyotism, shamanism, and prophecy from the reservation period to statehood, 1869-1906 -- The ghost dance, 1890-1916 -- Christianity and peyotism in the Postallotment era -- Peyotism and Christianity after World War II -- Conclusion: indigenized Christianity and spirituality.
Summary:
"Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, "Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas" examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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