God Is Red : A Native View of Religion

I read this book for a graduate course on Native American Religion. Deloria spends a lot of time criticizing a specific kind of Christianity (Oral Roberts/Jerry Falwell Evangelicalism), assuming that is representative of all Christianity. So while I agree with his criticisms of that kind of theology, I was frustrated with his lack of awareness of liberation theologies, queer theologies, etc.

I agree with this review of the book. That review points out something we talked about in my class about the bizarre diversion of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision and theories about Venus being a comet and Venus and Mars ping-ponging around the solar system to produce many of the ancient accounts of miracles.

God is Red was originally published in 1972, so much of it is outdated now. In 2003 a third edition was published which added a couple of new chapters but didn't fix the problems.

As others have pointed out, the arguments are long and circular, often veering into irrelevant or inaccurate ideas.