RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY AMONG THE INNU OF EASTERN QUEBEC AND LABRADOR
Religious ideology continues to provide a charter for social intercourse in secular societies, and a cultural underpinning to social and personal identity.2 Religious ideology is a special kind of thought, namely, «motivated thought » which aims to totalize the information received by an individual...
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| Summary: | Religious ideology continues to provide a charter for social intercourse in secular societies, and a cultural underpinning to social and personal identity.2 Religious ideology is a special kind of thought, namely, «motivated thought » which aims to totalize the information received by an individual concerning his/her natural and social environments, adding in the process additional levels of reality to that accessible through «common sense thought » (Tanner, 1979: 208). As Tanner notes, this kind of thinking (religious thought) is «not unrelated to the practical goals of everyday life, but it stands apart from "common sense" 1 Peter Armitage a enseigné au département d'anthropologie de l'Université Memorial (St-John's, Terre-Neuve) et poursuit actuellement des recherches à l'Université Laval (Québec). 2 This paper is a revised version of a chapter of a land use and occupancy study prepared for the Innu Nation in 1990 (see Armitage, 1990). I would like to thank José Mailhot and Anthony Jenkinson who devoted many hours to a careful review of an earlier version of this paper. Thanks are also due to my anonymous reviewers for their insights and detailed comments. Most importantly, however, I would like to thank Greg Penashue for sharing his rich insights into Innu religious ideology, and Nympha Byrne, Jeannine Mestenapeo, Anne Mestenapeo, Alex Andrew, George Gregoire, and other Innu friends for their expertise and patient assistance during the numerous interviews we conducted with Innu elders where religious matters were discussed. |
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