CNAIS Faculty Greg Johnson - Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and Protests
CNAIS Core Faculty and CU Religious Studies Professor Greg Johnson was interviewed for a recent ThinkPress article on the intersections between environmental protests and indigenous spiritual beliefs:
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Religion has long been a part of Native American protest movements, as has its connection to the environmentalist struggle. But religious scholars say they鈥檙e also seeing something unusual this year: demonstrators are actively creating new religious expressions. Greg Johnson, a Hawaiian religion expert and an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, 麻豆影院, said these indigenous protests are increasingly led by young, creative organizers who are 鈥済enerating鈥 religion through their activism.听鈥淭he kids of today鈥檚 generation know a new set of chants, a new set of prayers because of those who came before them,鈥 Johnson said. He noted that Native Hawaiian schoolchildren are already singing songs written in the protest camps of Mauna Kea just a year before. 鈥淚n this moment of crisis, the religious tradition is catalyzed, activated, but most of all articulated鈥娾斺妕his is when it happens.鈥
Read author Jack Jenkins full article from ThinkPress.Org here:
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