Religion,
Mythology, andFolklore
in the
Southwest
For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and journal article titles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research in the general subject areas listed above. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic. Journals are shelved alphabetically by title, without call numbers.
Categories in this
guide under Reference
Books | General
| Shamanism | Native American | Catholicism
Religion and
Mythology:
Protestantism | Judaism | Islam | Spiritual Retreats in Northern New Mexico
Categories in this
guide
General | Native
Americans | Spanish/Hispanic
under Folklore:
See also other Guides in this series on Health and Healing | Hispanos/Hispanic Americans | Native Americans
Religion and Mythology
Dictionary of Native American
Mythology (1994)
Encyclopedia of Native American
Religions (1992)
Man’s
Search for a Meaningful
Faith
Mythology of All Races
Religion and Science, History,
Method Dialogue
Religion and Scientific Method
Religion in Modern New Mexico (1997)
Religion in Primitive Society
Rites and Ceremonies
World Religions
Encyclopedia of Native American
Healing (REF.,
1996-98)
Encyclopedia of North American
Indians (REF.,
1996)
Hallucinogens and Shamanism(1973)
Piman Shamanism and Staying
Sickness (1974)
Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elders
Speak about the Earth(1991)
Medicine Way: How to Live the
Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel, A Shamanic
Path to
Self-mastery (1990)
Mother Earth Spirituality: Native
American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World(1990)
Shamanism (Drury, 1996)
Shaman's Path: Healing, Personal
Growth and Empowerment(1988)
Survival of the Spirit: Chiricahua
Apaches in Captivity(Stockel,
1993)
Witchcraft and Sorcery of the
American Native Peoples(1989)
See reference sources, above; see also library guide in this series on Native Americans.
American Indian Myths and
Legends
Black Elk Speaks
Coyote Reader
Diné Bahane
God is Red: a Native View of
Religion (Deloria)
Grandmothers of the Light(Allen,
1991)
Handbook of American Indian
Religious Freedom
I Became Part of It: Sacred
Dimensions in Native American Life (1992)
Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge (Bucko, 1998)
Living Life’s
Circle: Mescalero Apache
Cosmovision(Farrer, 1991)
Meditations with the Navajo(Hausman, 1987)
Mythic World of the Zuni(Cushing)
Mythology of Native North America
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla
Apache Indians (Opler)
Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua
Apache Indians (Opler)
Myths of the North American Indians
Native American Religions: An
Introduction (1993)
Navaho Witchcraft(Kluckholn,
1967 c. 1944)
Navajo
& Tibetan Sacred Wisdom: The Circle of the Spirit (Gold, 1994)
"Navajo Ceremonial Practitioners
Registry," (Maher,
Susan Naramore),
Journal of the
Southwest, 35:1 (Spring 1992)
Navajo Omens and Taboos
Navajo Religion (Reichard)
Native Religions of North America
Petroglyphs and Pueblo Myths of the
Southwest
Peyote Religion among the Navajos
Peyotism and New Mexico
Peyotism in the West(1984)
Red Earth, White Lies: Native
Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
Red Man’s
Religion (Underhill)
Red Swan: Myths and Tales of the
American Indians(Bierhorst, 1992)
Religion and Hopi Life in the
Twentieth Century
Religion in Native North America
Religions of the American Indians
Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama
Spiders and Spinsters: Women and
Mythology
Spirit World
Spiritual Legacy of the American
Indian(1982)
"Temporal Change in Navajo
Religion: 1868-1990," Journal of the Southwest 34:4 (Winter 1992)
13 Original Clan Mothers
Wisdom's Daughters
When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers
Went Away
Archbishop’s
Cathedral
Brothers of Light, Brothers of
Blood [Penitentes]
But Time and Chance [Padre Martinez]
"Churches of Earth: A Heritage of
Faith," New Mexico Magazine, 64:2 (February 1986)
Death's Deceiver: The Life of Joseph P. Machebeuf (1997)
En Divina Luz: the Penitente
Moradas of New Mexico
Familia y Fe/Family and Faith (permanent exhibit at the
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe; link)
"Family Chapels: Private
Sanctuaries Reflect Devotion," New Mexico
Magazine, 77:12 (December 1999)
Four Hundred Years of Faith; Seeds
of Struggle, Harvest of Faith: A History of the
Catholic Church
in New Mexico (Sheehan,
1998)
"Franciscan Eclipsed: Church and
State in Spanish New Mexico, 1750-1780
(Novis, New Mexico Historical Review, 76:2 (April 2001)
Guadalupe: Our Lady of New Mexico(1999)
Hispanic Catholicism in New
Spain and New Mexico(1999)
Images of Penance, Images of Mercy:
Southwestern Santos in the Late-Nineteenth Century
Lamy of Santa Fe, His Life and
Times
Living Shrines: Home Altars of New
Mexico
Making Up What is Lacking: Towards
an Interpretation of the Penitentes (1984)
My Penitente Land
New Mexico Santos: How to Name Them
Penitente Bibliography
Penitentes of the Sangre de Cristos
Penitentes of the Southwest
Persistence of Memory: New Mexico’s
Churches
Religious Architecture of New
Mexico in the Colonial Period
Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico
"Santo Niño de Atocha," Journal
of the Southwest, 36:1 (Spring 1994)
Santos: An Exhibition of Religious
Folk Art…
Santos and Saints: the Religious
Folk Art of Hispanic New Mexico
Santos, Statues and Sculpture
Santuario de Chimayo
Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and
Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States
Spanish Mission Churches of New
Mexico
Symbols of Faith: A Visual Journey
to the Historic Churches in New Mexico
"The Talpa Altar
Screen," (Carroll,
Charles D.), El Palacio, 68:4 (Winter 1961)
What is a New Mexico Santo?
"The Changing 'Jesus Road':
Protestants Reappraise American Indian Missions in the 1920s
and 1930s," Western
Historical Quarterly, XXVII:4 (winter 1996).
Churchmen and the Western Indians,
1820-1920
History of Early Religions and
Methodism in Northeastern New Mexico
Navaho and Zuni for Christ: Fifty
Years of Indian Missions
Protestant Clergy in the Great
Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915
Protestantism in the Sangre de
Cristos, 1850-1920
Protestantism, Capitalism and
Nature in America
Judaism (includes general histories of Jewish settlers in the Southwest and links to WWW sites)
Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of
New Mexico (1998)
History of the Jews in New
Mexico (Tobias,
1990)
Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico (permanent exhibit at
Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe; (link)
Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico,
1827-1917 (booklet
from exhibit)
"Jews in Early Phoenix,
1870-1920," (Lamb, Blaine), in Journal of Arizona History, 18:3 (Autumn 1977)
Jews on the Frontier: An Account of
Jewish Pioneers and Settlers in Early America (1990)
Louis Felsenthal, Citizen-Soldier
of Territorial New Mexico
Merchant-Bankers of Early Santa Fe,
1844-1893 (Spiegelberg
family)
"Mistaken Identity? The
Case of New Mexico's 'Hidden Jews'" (article published in
The Atlantic,
December 2000; text online)
New Mexico Jewish Historical
Society (link)
"New Mexico's Jewish
Pioneers," El Palacio, 105:1 ( Summer/Fall 2000)
Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far
West(1984)
We Lived There, Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures--Pioneer Jews and
the WestwardMovement of America, 1630-1930(1985)
"Dar al-Islam: Mosque Reaches
to Heavens in O'Keeffe Country," New
Mexico Magazine,66:1 (January 1988).
Dar al-Islam Abiquiu program ( link)
Spiritual Retreats in Northern New
Mexico
Christ of the Desert
Monastery (Abiquiu) (link)
Lama Foundation (San Cristobal, near
Taos) (link)
Neem Karoli Baba Ashram (Taos) (link)
Sacred Sites of Northern New
Mexico (link)
See also guides in this series on Literature: Hispanic Writers Literature: Native American Writers
Dee Brown’s
Folktales of the Native
American
Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos
in Native American Folklore
Lore of New Mexico (Weigle)
Voice of the Coyote (Dobie)
Witchcraft in the Southwest
Indian Tales from Picuris Pueblo(Harrington)
Indian Stories from the
Pueblos (Applegate)
Kachina Tales from the Indian
Pueblos (Hodge)
Legends and Lore of the American
Indian
Pueblo Indian Folk-stories (Lummis)
Taos Tales (Parsons)
Tewa Firelight Tales (James)
Tewa Tales (Parsons)
Voices of the Winds: Native
American Legends
Abuelitos:
Stories of the Rio Puerco Valley
Cuentos from My Childhood: Stories
My Mother Told Me
Hispano Folklife of New Mexico
Más Antes: Hispanic Folklore of the
Rio Puerco
Memories of Cibola: Stories from
New Mexico Villages (Pena)
Recuerdos de los Viejitos: Tales of
the Rio Puerco
Shadows of the Past : Sombras del
Pasado
Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New
Mexico
Treasure of the Sangre de Cristos:
Tales and Traditions of the Spanish Southwest