Library of World Religions and Spirituality | Faith | Patheos. Written by the world's leading authorities on religion and spirituality, the Patheos Library offers the most accurate and balanced information available on the web. In the column below, 50 major religious traditions are listed. For each, Patheos offers thorough, peer-reviewed, encyclopedic information that helps readers understand its origins, history, beliefs, rituals, ethics, and community structures. Click on the name of a religion to read in-depth articles. Use the Patheos Side-by-Side Lens to create an easy-to-read comparison chart for differing religious traditions.
Choose up to three traditions from the scrollable lists to the right and then click Go! More Traditions Here are some important Traditions that help fill in the big picture — ancient religions, indigenous religions, non-religious "systems," and some additional traditions related to the Major Traditions in the main Patheos Library. View More Traditions Origin Map Country Profiles Go Topics For Students For Teachers. Viewcontent.cgi?article=1300&context=eip&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D7%26ved%3D0CF0QFjAG%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommons.pacificu.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent. Native American Worldview Emerges. Note: all original writing (presented here) is copyrighted by the Library of Congress to Mary Magoulick. It may be used only according to copyright law and by permission of the author. Native American Worldview Emerges While there will never be and has never been one definitive worldview that comprises any one Native American culture (let alone hundreds), many Native people seem to agree upon certain values and ways of seeing and experiencing the world as characteristic.
In presenting an emerging picture of Native worldview today it is helpful to consider ideas of past Native worldviews. M. A. In terms of economics, the Native peoples tend to have communal property, subsistence production, barter systems, high-impact technology, and competitive production. The portrait painted here is a familiar and often repeated one of Indians as living communally, with participatory democracy, strong extended families, and a pluralistic religious life based on nature as living and sacred. Part X. A Native American Worldview / Hawk and Eagle, Both are Singing. NATIVE AMERICAN WORLD VIEW WRITINGS by James Q. Jacobs. Conquistadores and their Views Pedro de Alvarado (in a letter to Cortes):"...I knew them to have such a bad will towards service to His Majesty, and for the good and peace of this land, I burned them and ordered the city burned and leveled to the ground, because it is so dangerous and so strong that it seems more like a house of thieves than of people.
" Bernal Diaz del Castillo: Most interest in conquest narratives is given to the Diaz account, "True History of the Conquest of New Spain. " Diaz's kinsman Diego Velasquez had conquered Cuba so he set sail along with "some of us gentlemen and persons of quality. " Diaz sailed to America with Pedro de Arias in 1514. He participated in two explorations of the Mayan Yucatan peninsula and then in 1519 sailed with conqueror Hernando Cortez to Mexico. Diaz began writing after 1550, but only completed his account in 1568 after being angered by an account he read, that of Lopez de Gamora. Bartolome de las Casas sailed to the "New World" in 1502.