Menu—History of Religions
This most recent textbook,
for the general History of Religions, has been published in 2013 in English and 2015 in German; 2016
in Turkish--Ceviri Leyla, Tonguc Basmaci;
and the Chinese version,
translated by Zuotang Zhang... is readied for release in 2017, by the Huanghe Publishing Co. Ltd., Ningxia,
P.R.C.
Samples from the Personal Bibliography: History of Religions
<< 2017 Work in
Progress, “Tentative Preface.”>>
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2017 Work in Progress. Zhang Zuotang “Yin Yang
Shamans of Ningxia, China. Expanded Field Report.”
2017 Ready
for Release. Chinese Edition of Stone Age Religion, translated by Zhang
Zuotang, Feng Chunbo & Ronghui Jia, Yinchuan, Ningxia: Huanghe Publishing Co. Ltd.
2016 Turkish
Edition, published by Alfa Basim Yayim
Dağitim, Istanbul, Turkey.
2015 German
edition: Jaegertempel am Bauchberg
Goebekli Tepe, translated by Karl W. Luckert. Triplehood, Portland, OR.
2013 Stone
Age Religion at Goebekli Tepe -- from Hunting to Domestication, Warfare and
Civilization. Foreword by Klaus Schmidt. Triplehood, Portland, Oregon.
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<< 2002 – unfinished: “Yin-Yang-Shamanism in Ningxia, China
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by Luckert and Zhang. Foreword
and Video-Script by Karl W. Luckert and Zuotang Zhang.
2002-2004 Video: Karl W. Luckert and Zuotang Zhang, an unfinished Video-Project: “Yin Yang Shamans of Ningxia, China.” [1:00:38] << https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SKpVUpbQI >> Ctrl + Click)
Published on Sep 28, 2016. We visited Muslims and their mosques in fourteen different Chinese provinces. The filming was done with the organization and collaboration of the Islamics Center at the
University of Ningxia. Go to 1993 for the the Video-Script.
2004.
Video: “Coyoteway, a Navayo Holyway Healing
Ceremonial.” (57 Minutes). A take-off on
an earlier slide lecture; unpublished. Go instead to the year 1979 for Coyoteway pictures
and text.
<< 2002 Out of Egypt an Other Son. (VideoScript)
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2002
Video: Youtube--Karl W. Luckert--"Out of Egypt an Other
Son," [1:00:51] <<
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Published on Sep 28, 2016.-- A 2002 video lecture following along the
trail of the author's 1991 book, "Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire."
<< 2000 Dragon over
America: Religion from Olmec to Aztec. VideoScript >>
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2000 Video:
Go to Youtube--Karl W. Luckert--"Dragon over America." [49:57]
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Published
on Sep 28, 2016.-- A take-off from the
Author's 1976 book--"Olmec Religion,
a Key to Middle America and Beyond." This video was assembled for
friends and fellow educators in 2000.
1998 Co-authored with Awelkhan Hali and Zengxiang
Li, Kazakh Traditions in China. Lanham: University Press of America. (235
pages)
1998
Co-authored with Cuiyi Wei. Uighur
Stories from Along the Silk Road. Lanham: University Press of America. (346 pages).
1994
Co-authored with Li Shujiang. Myths and
Legends of the Hui, a Muslim Chinese People. Albany: State University of New
York Press. (470 pages).
<< 1993 “Muslims in
China.” English VideoScript. Revised in 2004. Produced with the help of Li Shujiang, English and Chinese. >>
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A
modified Chinese version of this video, was approved for television broadcast
and for use in higher education in the P. R. of China; released by Ningxia, Peoples
Publishing House.
1992
Glimpses of Religion in a Missouri City,
a Video Documentary prepared for distribution in China. Approved in China for
television and higher education viewing. (55 min.)
1991 Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire: Theological
and Philosophical Roots of Christendom in Evolutionary Perspective. State
University of New York Press. (356
pages). Click for Revision in Progress, 2017.
1991
"Cong Jing Hua Lun De Guan Dian Kan Hui Zu Min Jian Wen Xue (Chinese Hui
Muslim Traditions in Evolutionary Perspective)," transl. Fenglan Yu, in
Hui Zu Wen Hua Lun Cong (Hui Culture Research Series), vol. 4, Ningxia Peoples Publishing
House.
1991
Journey to Ningxia, a pilot video program.
1990
"Hainuwele and Headhunting
Reconsidered," in East and West, vol. 40, nos. 1-4, pp. 261-279, IsMEO,
Florence and Rome.
1988
Translation: Joachim Wach, Introduction to the History of Religions. Subsequently
edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa and Gregory Alles. The MacMillan Publishing
Company.
1986
"Jaegerkulturer og Faenomenet Skyld," in Religionsvidenskabeligt
Tidsskrift nr. 8, March 1986, pp. 3-21. Aarhus. Universitet, Denmark.
1986
"Perfectionism in Human Evolution," essay in Stanley M. Burgess, ed.,
Reaching Beyond: Chapters in the History
of Perfectionism. Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA.
1983
An interpretative essay: "Coyote in
Navajo and Hopi Tales," pp. 3-19. In Father Berard Haile, Navajo Coyote
Tales, ATR 8. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.
1979 Karl W. Luckert and Jonny C. Cooke, Navajo
Interpreter: Coyoteway, a Navajo Holyway
Healing Ceremonial, Tucson and Flagstaff: The University of Arizona Press
and the Museum of Northern Arizona Press.
258 pages. Click next for textual excerpts with illustrations, in four parts:
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1979 "An Approach to Navajo Mythology,"
in Native Religious Traditions, Earl
H. Waugh and K. Dad Prithipaul editors. Waterloo, Ontario.
1979
"Toward a Historical Perspective on
Navajo Religion," in Navajo Religion
and Culture, Selected Views. Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman; Brugge and
Frisbie, editors; pp. 187-197. Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1978
A
Navajo Bringing-Home Ceremony, the Claus Chee Sony Version of Deerway Ajilee,
American Tribal Religions, Volume 3. Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona
Press. Editor’s Introduction contains a significant insight into singer-practitioners’
classification of song ceremonials.
1977
Navajo
Mountain and Rainbow Bridge Religion, American Tribal Religions, Volume 1.
Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press.
1976
Olmec
Religion, A Key to Middle America and Beyond. Volume 137 in "The
Civilization of the American Indian" series. Norman: The University of
Oklahoma Press. See the “Dragon over America” Video, above, at 2000.
<< 1975 The Navajo Hunter Tradition. Tucson: The
University of Arizona Press. Click for textual Excerpt on “Prehuman Flux”
mythology. >> hr-nav-h (Ctrl + Click)
<< 1973 "The
Road of Life: Report of a Visit by a Navajo Seer." Field visitation Luckert
and Benz. >> hr-nav-r (Ctrl + Click)
First published in Ethnomedizin II, 3-4. Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Ethnomedizin, Hamburg.
1972
"Traditional Navajo Theories of
Disease and Healing," in Arizona
Medicine: Journal of the Arizona Medical Association, 29:7, pp. 570-73.
Phoenix, Arizona.
1969
"The Geographization of Death in
Melanesia," in Numen: International
Review for the History of Religions, 18:2, pp. 141-160. Leiden, Holland.
1969 Dissertation:
Mythical Geographies of the Dead in Melanesia. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Microfilms.
The “American Tribal Religions” series, ATR, 1977
through 1987.
A book series,
composed and edited for the Museum of Northern Arizona Press; subsequently for the
University of Nebraska Press.
1987
Armin W. Geertz and Michael
Lomatuway'ma, Children of Cottonwood:
Piety and Ceremonialism in Hopi Indian Puppetry, ATR 12. Lincoln and
London: The University of Nebraska Press.
1987
Ekkehart Malotki and Michael
Lomatuway'ma, Stories of Maasaw-a Hopi
God, ATR 10. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.
1987
Ekkehart Malotki and Michael
Lomatuway'ma, Maasaw-Profile of a Hopi
God, ATR 11. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.
1984
Ekkehart Malotki and Michael
Lomatuway'ma, Hopi Coyote Tales, ATR
9. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.
1983
edited with an interpretative essay:
"Coyote in Navajo and Hopi Tales," pp. 3-19. Father Berard Haile, Navajo Coyote Tales, ATR 8. Lincoln,
London: The University of Nebraska Press.
1980
edited with commentary: Father Berard
Haile, O.F.M., Women versus Men, a
Conflict of Navajo Emergence. ATR 6. Lincoln and London: The University of
Nebraska Press.
1980
edited with an introduction (pp.
vii-xv): Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., Upward
Moving and Emergence Way, ATR 7. Lincoln and London: The University of
Nebraska Press.
1979
authored: Mother Earth Once Was a Girl, a Scientific Theory on the Expansion of
Planet Earth. Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona Press (16 pages). ATR
Supplement One.
Go to Menu-Page for the Triplehood portion at this Website.
1979
Ruth M. Underhill, Donald M. Bahr,
Baptisto Lopez, Jose Pancho, David Lopez, Rainhouse and Ocean, Speeches for the
Papago Year, ATR 4. Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona Press.
1979
Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., Waterway, ATR 5. (Appendix, pp. 135-51,
by Luckert), Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press.
1978
Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., Love-Magic and Butterfly People, the Slim
Curly Version of the Ajilee and Mothway Myths, ATR 2. Flagstaff: The Museum
of Northern Arizona Press.
1978 authored:
A
Navajo Bringing-Home Ceremony, the Claus Chee Sony Version of Deerway Ajilee.
ATR 3. Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press.
1977 authored:
Navajo
Mountain and Rainbow Bridge Religion, ATR 1. Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona
Press.
Songs awaiting Sounds
2016 Before
and After Abraham: Sixteen Songs on Human Destiny and Evolution, centered
mostly on the Patriarch Abraham. Portland. Limited edition.
<< See score sample, Hymn 16. >> hr-rest (Ctrl + Click)
2015 Der Friede Abraham. Karl W. Luckert and Jonas
Nordwall, (German edition of English, Peace of Abraham, 2014). Triplehood,
Portland.
2014 Peace of
Abraham, a musical narrative -- Libretto and chorus. Revised Edition—Karl W.
Luckert and Jonas Nordwall, Organist at First UMC, who composed the
organ accompaniments, ca 85 minutes.
<< See score sample, Hymn 23. >>
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2008 “American Genesis.” A
musical narrative, libretto and chorus. In cooperation with Jonas Nordwall.
Work in progress.