Introduction: Kiowa culture in the nineteenth century -- Christianity, peyotism, shamanism, and prophecy from the reservation period to statehood, 1869-1906 -- The ghost dance, 1890-1916 -- Christianity and peyotism in the Postallotment era -- Peyotism and Christianity after World War II -- Conclusion: indigenized Christianity and spirituality
Summary
"Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, "Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas" examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher