Land-based spirituality among the Cree of the Mushkegowuk territory. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Land-based spirituality among the Cree of the Mushkegowuk territory. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)
- Main Title:
- Land-based spirituality among the Cree of the Mushkegowuk territory
- Authors:
- Dylan, Arielle
Smallboy, Bartholemew - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: This article reports on findings from a research project investigating social, cultural, political, community, and spiritual impacts of a mining development sited in the Mushkegowuk territory of the coastal Cree people of western James Bay. When using a variety of indicators to explore how the negotiated agreement with an industrial proponent (diamond mining) was impacting community members, the threat to cultural lifeways and contingent spirituality as a result of land degradation was expressed by most participants in the study. While mindfulness, as adopted from the Buddhist tradition, denotes a very specific type of practice involving present-moment awareness, the breath, and body sensations, mindfulness in its broader definition refers more generally to a state of keen awareness. Across two phases of this research project, representing qualitative interviews with more than 50 participants, a picture of deep relationship and engagement with the land and its myriad life forms emerged, a picture suggestive of profound awareness, attunement, and reciprocity consistent with the broader definition of mindfulness. It is upon this land-based relationship that spirituality for the Mushkegowuk Cree people relies, and, as expressed by many study participants, the very core of their identity is founded on this form of spirituality.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of religion & spirituality in social work. Volume 35:Issue 1/2(2016)
- Journal:
- Journal of religion & spirituality in social work
- Issue:
- Volume 35:Issue 1/2(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 35, Issue 1/2 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0035-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 108
- Page End:
- 119
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01-02
- Subjects:
- Indigenous sovereignty -- Indigenous spirituality -- land-based spirituality -- mindfulness -- self-determination -- spirituality
Church and social problems -- United States -- Periodicals
Church and social problems -- Catholic Church -- Periodicals
Christian sociology -- Periodicals
261.805 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wrsp20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/15426432.2015.1067589 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1542-6432
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- Legaldeposit
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