Eva M Garroutte, Janette Beals, Ellen M Keane, Carol Kaufman, Paul Spicer, Jeff Henderson, Patricia N Henderson, Christina M Mitchell, Spero M Manson
Social scientific investigation into the religiospiritual characteristics of American Indians rarely includes analysis of quantitative data. After reviewing information from ethnographic and autobiographical sources, we present analyses of data from a large, population-based sample of two tribes (n = 3,084). We examine salience of belief in three traditions: aboriginal, Christian, and Native American Church. We then investigate patterns in sociodemographic subgroups, determining the significant correlates of salience with other variables controlled...
September 2009: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion