Faculty
Dennis Kelley
Assistant Professor
Religious Studies
American Indian Studies
415 Catt Hall
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-7276
Email:dkelley@iastate.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara
Research and Teaching Interests
American Indian Religious Traditions
Religions of Indigenous People
Selected Publications
"Recovery and Resistance: 'Wellbriety' and Healing the Community,"
Religion and Healing in Native America. Suzanne Crawford, Ed.,
Praeger Press, Forthcoming.
"The Politics of Death and Burial in Native California," Death
and Religion in a Changing World. Kathleen Garces-Foley, Ed.,
M.E. Sharpe, Inc., October 2005.
American Indian Religious Traditions, an Encyclopedia. Dennis
F. Kelley and Suzanne Crawford, Eds., ABC-Clio: June 2005.
"Quicienera," "La Posada," and "Renew," The Encyclopedia of Religion,
Wade Clark Roof, Ed., Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 2001.
"The Noontide Sun: The Field Journals of The Reverend Stephens Bowers."
American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24(1) 2000. Review.
Conference Presentations
"'Our Ancestors Paddle with Us': Tradition and Construction within
Native American Religious Practice." Presented at the annual meeting
of the American Academy of Religion, November 2001.
"'The World is a Canoe': Tradition, Identity, and Symbolism in The
Reprise of Chumash Maritime Orientation." Presented at the annual
meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1999.
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion
California Indian Studies Association
American Sociological Association
Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Southwest Anthropological Association
