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Over Rock and Under Stone: Carved Rocks and Subterranean Burials at Kipia, Ancash, AD 1000 – 1532 [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2018
Research in the Andes has yielded evidence for a complex association between settlement sites and mortuary monuments, tied to concepts of death, ancestor veneration and water.
Lane Kevin   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Dreaming Ancestors Among African American: A Challenge to the Modern Igbo People [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study examines the ancestral dream, an element of ancestor veneration that has persisted, in African religious life since the arrival of their enslaved ancestors in this country.
Anedo, O
core   +3 more sources

Ancestral beliefs in modern cultural and religious practices – The case of the Bapedi tribe

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
There is no consensus among scholars of myth as to how the central concept of their field should be defined. What is a ‘myth’ and how does it differ from a ‘belief’?
Morakeng E.K. Lebaka
doaj   +1 more source

Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
This article reflects on the impact of the inculturation of liturgy in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church (EEC) on identity formation within the context of African Christianity.
Phumezile Kama, John S. Klaasen
doaj   +1 more source

Redefining Religious Nones: Lessons from Chinese and Japanese American Young Adults

open access: yesReligions, 2015
This analysis of Chinese and Japanese American young adults, based on the Pew Research Center 2012 Asian American Survey, examines the religious nones of these ethnic groups. Rather than focusing on their beliefs and belonging to religious denominations,
Russell Jeung, Brett Esaki, Alice Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Research Reports from the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project, Volume Three [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Table of Contents : Archaeological Investigations of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project: An Introduction to Volume Three / by Fred Valdez, Jr. and Rissa M.
Trachman, Rissa M., Valdez, Fred Jr
core   +1 more source

Is Ancestor veneration the most universal of all world religions? A critique of modernist cosmological bias

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2014
Research by anthropologists engaged with the Comparative Austronesia Project (Australian National University) has amassed an enormous data set for ethnological comparison between the religions of Austronesian-speaking societies, a language group to which
Thomas Reuter
doaj   +1 more source

The Gastronomy of Tenggerese's "Cangkriman-Sodoran" Oral Literature

open access: yesLensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya, 2020
The diversity and uniqueness of Tenggerese cuisine is a small part of the complexity of gastro-ritual. So far there have not been many comprehensive studies on the gastronomy in Tengger, especially the one in Tenggerese rituals.
Sony Sukmawan
doaj   +1 more source

Jesus Christ as an Ancestor: A critique of Ancestor Christology in Bantu Communities. [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2018
The theological and relativized usage of inculturation as a paradigm which serves the purpose of ‘praeparatio evangelica’, otherwise known as ‘the preparation for the Gospel’, of Africans with the Christian doctrine of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, as
Joel Mokhoathi
doaj  

Posoqoypata, un cementerio Wari en el valle de Ayacucho, Perú

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2001
Recently we carried out an archaeological salvage excavation at a Wari cemetery in the Ayacucho Valley of central Peru. This intervention resulted in the discovery of two totally new mortuary structure forms for the region and the Wari culture in ...
Lidio M. Valdez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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