Description: Hultkrantz reveals the integrity of Indian religion as a subject in its own right, not divorced from culture, history, or ecology, but religion as an effective force in Indian life. He offers American Indian religious phenomena as a treasure trove of data to be mapped and related to the religions of the world.
Review Quotes: Hultkrantz has been almost unique in bringing to the study of Indian religions the qualifications of an expert in comparative religion. Whereas those narrowly trained in anthropology have customarily studied Indian myths and rituals merely as incidental artefacts of cultures chiefly interesting for other reasons, he has regarded them as worthy of study for their own sake. The result has been to make him the master of a field that has been astonishingly neglected by most Indianists. The fruits of his approach are evident in the seriousness of the questions raised in these essays.-- "John Webster Grant, Studies in Religion"