Karl W. Luckert -- Bibliography
Professor emeritus at SMSU, (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1969).  Published on religion in Melanesia; Navajo and other American Indians; Olmec religion; ancient Egypt (including ancient Israel, Neoplatonism, early Christianity); Islam in China (Hui, Kazakh, Uighur). 
Manager of this site: www.historyofreligions.com . E-mail: kwluckert@msn.com . 

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A scene from the Navajo Coyoteway healing ceremonial, January 1974
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Personal Bibliography

1969  Dissertation: Mythical Geographies of the Dead in Melanesia. Chicago: The University of Chicago Microfilms.

1969  "The Geographization of Death in Melanesia," in Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 18:2, pp. 141-160. Leiden, Holland.

1972  "Traditional Navajo Theories of Disease and Healing," in Arizona Medicine: Journal of the Arizona Medical Association, 29:7, pp. 570-73. Phoenix, Arizona.

1973  co-authored: Ernst Benz and Karl W. Luckert. "The Road of Life: Report of a Visit by a Navajo Seer," in Ethnomedizin II, 3/4 (1973). Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, Hamburg. Prepared for web site 2000. Only the portion originally written by Luckert has been revised and included. Star upon the Road of Life--Light from a Navajo Indian shaman

1975 The Navajo Hunter Tradition. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. (247 pages)

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. (200 pages)

1977 authored and composition: Navajo Mountain and Rainbow Bridge Religion, American Tribal Religions, Volume 1. Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press. (165 pages)  With this volume began the twelve-volume "American Tribal Religions" books series. 

1978  authored and composition: 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. (222 pages)

1978  edited and composition, with an introduction. Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., Love-Magic and Butterfly People, the Slim Curly Version of the Ajilee and Mothway Myths, American Tribal Religions, Volume 2. Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press.

1979  authored and composition: Mother Earth Once Was a Girl, a Scientific Theory on the Expansion of Planet Earth. Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona Press. (16 pages) American Tribal Religions, Supplement 1. [This pamphlet marks the beginning of "Expansion Tectonics," see Hood Two of the Triple Hood Institute].

1979  edited and composition: Ruth M. Underhill, Donald M. Bahr, Baptisto Lopez, Jose Pancho, David Lopez, Rainhouse and Ocean, Speeches for the Papago Year, American Tribal Religions, Volume 4. Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press.

1979  edited and composition, with an appendix (pp. 135-51): Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., Waterway, American Tribal Religions, Volume 5. Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press.

1979 Coyoteway, a Navajo Holyway Healing Ceremonial,  Tucson and Flagstaff: The University of Arizona Press and the Museum of Northern Arizona Press. Johnny C. Cooke, Navajo Interpreter. (258 pages). Website version prepared in 2000.

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.

1980  edited and composition, with commentary: Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., Women versus Men, a Conflict of Navajo Emergence. American Tribal Religions, Volume 6. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.

1980  edited and composition, with an introduction (pp. vii-xv): Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., Upward Moving and Emergence Way, American Tribal Religions, Volume 7. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.

1983  edited and composition, with an introductory essay: "Coyote in Navajo and Hopi Tales," pp. 3-19. Father Berard Haile, Navajo Coyote Tales, American Tribal Religions, Volume 8. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.

1984  edited and composition: Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway'ma, Hopi Coyote Tales, American Tribal Religions, Volume 9. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.

1986  "Jaegerkulturer og Faenomenet Skyld," in Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift nr. 8, March 1986, pp. 3-21. Aarhus Universitet, Denmark.

1986  "Perfectionism in Human Evolution," chapter in Stanley M. Burgess, ed., Reaching Beyond: Chapters in the History of Perfectionism. Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA.

1987  edited and composition: Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway'ma, Stories of Maasaw—a Hopi God, American Tribal Religions, Volume 10. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.

1987  edited and composition: Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway'ma, Maasaw—Profile of a Hopi God, American Tribal Religions, Volume 11. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.

1987  edited and composition: Armin W. Geertz and Michael Lomatuway'ma, Children of Cottonwood: Piety and Ceremonialism in Hopi Indian Puppetry, American Tribal Religions, Volume 12. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press.

1990  "Hainuwele and Headhunting Reconsidered," in East and West, vol. 40, nos. 1-4, pp. 261-279. IsMEO, Florence and Rome.  Prepared for web site in 1999 under the title: Toward Understanding Headhunter and Cannibal Religion

1991  Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire: Theological and Philosophical Roots of Christendom in Evolutionary Perspective. State University of New York Press. (356 pages). My most important book to date. Prepared for internet display in 1999 and 2001 in five booklets— for ongoing revision:

Booklet One  What is Religion?  -- Definition on a Sliding Teeter Totter Scale

Booklet Two  Ancient Egyptian Religion -- Mother of Neoplatonism and Christian Orthodoxy

Booklet Three  Israelite Religion -- from Levites to Prophets and Messianic Kings

Booklet Four  Philosophy -- Hellenic Wisdom from Hesiod to Plato and Plotinus

Booklet Five  The Birth of Christendom -- a different Son of God

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, submitted for raising funds for the summer 1992 filming expedition to China.

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.)

1993 Muslims in China, a video documentary for the history of religions. Produced with the help of Li Shujiang. English and Chinese. Chinese version approved for television and higher education viewing in China. (151 min.)

1994  co-authored with Li Shujiang. Myths and Legends of the Hui, a Muslim ChinesePeople. Albany: State University of New York Press. (470 pages)

1995  Dragon over America: A Video Documentary, produced for showing at the XVII International Congress for the History of Religions, Mexico City, August 1995. --superseded; see 2000 version.

1996  "A Unified Theory of Earth Expansion, Pacific Evacuation and Orogenesis." In Theophrastus' Contributions to Advanced Studies in Geology. Athens, Greece: Theophrastus Publications S.A., pp. 61-73.

1996  Expansion Tectonics, a video program. (Part One: The Formation of Oceans. Part Two: The Formation of Mountains. Part Three: Story of Discovery.) Based on "Warsaw Lecture," given at the Royal Castle of Warsaw, Poland, by invitation of the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the University of Warsaw. Lufa Studio, June 1996.  

1997  "The Planet Earth is Expanding," in Journal of Ningxia University, vol. 19, 2. Num. 74, pp. 75-96.

1997-99  "Plate Tectonics is Expansion Tectonics." A website www.kwluckert.com .

1998  "From Ocean Floor Chronology to Expansion Tectonics," a presentation at the International Symposium on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, November 20-23, Tsukuba, Japan.

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). [About availability see LUFA STUDIO Publications, at the Triple Hood Institute home page].

1999  Planet Earth Expanding and the Eocene Tectonic Event: Paradigm Shift toward Expansion Tectonics. (78 pages) Lufa Studio, and www.triplehood.com .  Search under "Hood Two."

2000 Dragon over America--Religion from Olmec to Aztec. Video-tape of 50 minutes.
Downloadable Script! 

2001 New web site: www.historyofreligions.com -- you are on it!

2002 Earth Expansion and the Eocene Tectonic Event, an essay presented at the "New Concepts in Global Tectonics" NCGT Conference, La Junta, Colorado, May 2002. The essential points of this essay are already contained in my 1999 booklet, listed above. See link to www.triplehood.com. Search under "Hood Two."

2002 Out of Egypt an Other Son. DVD video. A 62 minute travelogue documentary.
New Downloadable Script!

2004 Muslims in China. DVD video. A 60 minute travelogue documentary, based on footage from 1989-1995.
New Downloadable Script!

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Personal Data

 
1934  Born November 18th, in Winnenden-Hoefen, Wuerttemberg, Germany.
1941-52  Volksschule; apprentice in the Malerhandwerk (painting and decorating); Gewerbeschule.
1953  First immigration to the United States; 1956-58  Member in the United States Army
1959-63  University of Kansas, B.A. degree 1963, philosophy major
1963-64  Evangelical Theological Seminary, Naperville, Illinois.
1964-69  University of Chicago, history of religions. Principal professors were M. Eliade and J.M. Kitagawa; degrees awarded: M.A. 1967; Ph.D. 1969, dissertation: "Mythical Geographies of the Dead in Melanesia."
1968-69 Visiting Lecturer, Religion Department, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois.
1969-79 Assistant Professor, Humanities Dept., Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
1972-73  National Endowment for the Humanities, research fellow, University of Oklahoma.
1977  Honorary Research Associate of the Museum of Northern Arizona.
1977-78  Rockefeller Foundation, humanities research fellow, Navajo Indian religion. 
1979-82 Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, SMSU, full professor in 1982
1985  Fulbright Professor, American Indian religions, Institute for Religionshistorie, Aarhus University, Denmark.
1986  Return to teaching at SMSU: Religions of the World, Primitive and Prehistoric Religions, American Indian Religions, Chinese Religions, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Evolution of Sacrifice, Kingship and the Gods, Fifth Century B.C.E., Legacy of Egypt.   
1988, 1995, 1998, various research awards at SMSU.  
1990  "Honorary Professor" at the University of Ningxia, China.
1999, January 1, SMSU professor emeritus.

 

 

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