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Redefining Religious Nones: Lessons from Chinese and Japanese American Young Adults
Religions, 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
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Wacana: 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
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Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church
HTS 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
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Jesus Christ as an Ancestor: A critique of Ancestor Christology in Bantu Communities. [PDF]
Pharos 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
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Posoqoypata, un cementerio Wari en el valle de Ayacucho, Perú
Bulletin 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
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The Gastronomy of Tenggerese's "Cangkriman-Sodoran" Oral Literature
Lensa: 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
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Religion and Social CommunicationAncestor veneration is considered by some to be a primitive custom, outdated, and with no relevance to modern society. In this study, however, the researcher will show that ancestor veneration is alive and practiced in various cultures, especially among ...
Longginus Farneubun, Rico Casta Jacoba
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ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBOAfricans are in the habit of venerating the dead among them who qualify as ancestors. The practice of ancestral veneration in Africa, particularly amongst the Yòrùbá people of West Africa, is premised on their belief in continual existence after death.
Oreoluwa Idris ADESANYA
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A Flexible Indeterminate Theory of Religion: Thinking through Chinese Religious Phenomena
Religions, 2019 This essay explores a few of the reasons for the failure of Western theories to capture Chinese religious experiences. It will include Durkheim’s insight that “The sacred … is society in disguised form” and variants of secularization theories in contrast
Tak-ling Terry Woo
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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