annoyedanother annoying thing is that he doesn't seem to notice that the western objectification of nature and belief in progress underwrite science as well as religion; he simply points out that certain native american conceptions would seem to accord better with scientific explanations than do parallel christian ones, and makes of this a triumph for native american religion, without questioning whether one might want to get on board the scientific project so quickly, without stopping to consider the way in which the christian view of nature as subject to human domination has itself facilitated the scientific endeavor.
I mean there's more to be said about science than just that, and there may be ways to be scientific without behaving violently towards the world, but right off the bat I wish he would take a more subtle approach to these things. if nothing else, it is a pain to have to stop every few pages and articulate my annoyance.
