Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance: Reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's Account

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Fritz Detwiler

Cosmology and Moral Community in the Lakota Sun Dance

Reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's Account

Fritz Detwiler

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Regional studies; History of the Americas; Religion: general; Society & culture: general; Anthropology

Series: Vitality of Indigenous Religions

Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex – the most important Lakota ceremony – creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition.

The book uses Walker’s primary source to conduct a reading of the Sun Dance in its nineteenth-century context through the lenses of Lakota metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, and ethics. The author argues that the Sun Dance constitutes a cosmic ethical drama in which persons of all types – human and nonhuman – come together in reciprocal actions and relationships. Drawing on contemporary animist theory and a perspectivist approach that uses Lakota worldview assumptions as the basis for analysis, the book enables a richer understanding of the Sun Dance and its role in the Lakota moral world.

Offering a nuanced understanding that centers Lakota views of the sacred, this book will be relevant to scholars of religion and animism, and all those interested in Native American cultures and lifeways.

By: Fritz Detwiler
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367748807
ISBN 10: 0367748800
Series: Vitality of Indigenous Religions
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fritz Detwiler is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Leadership at Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, USA. His specialty is Native American ontologies. Fritz is a charter member of the Society for the Study of Native American Sacred Traditions and has functioned as its treasurer and meeting coordinator since the society’s inception.