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Ethno-Spirituality: A Postcolonial Problematic? [PDF]
, 2009 This article explores the nature of spirituality in African traditions, for which we use the term ethno-spirituality. We examine the assumptions and effects of western missionaries, and how African spirituality negotiated with these new ideas and merged ...
Bigger, Stephen
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Pagan and Christian elements in the religious syncretism among the Shoshoni indians of Wyoming
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1969 Religious syncretism, in the wider sense of this term, is an expression for cultural contact, and in most cases it presupposes an advanced acculturation, as it is the focus of culture, its value system which is influenced.
Åke Hultkrantz
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Book Review: Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths [PDF]
, 1999 A review of Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths by Shirley Du ...
Barnhart, Bruno
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Amanda Kearney +3 more
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Les multiples dimensions des rapports entre jeux et faits religieux
Sciences du Jeu, 2021 Despite the fact that the relations between games and religious facts have quite early been a topic of concern for researchers in French social sciences, like Marcel Mauss and Émile Durkheim, this theme has not developed much in social sciences and ...
Laurent Di Filippo
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Potret Islam Sinkretisme: Praktik Ritual Kejawen?
Komunika, 2015 Javanese people, usually called Kejawen people, believe that all religions teach good values and spiritual purity to reach perfection in life. They train their spiritual life and inner sense to achieve the highest existence of a human being.
Sulkhan Chakim
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Unity Through Diversity: A Case Study of Chrislam in Lagos [PDF]
, 2016 This article presents an ethnographic case study of Chrislam, a series of religious movements that fuse Christian and Muslim beliefs and practices, in its socio-cultural and political-economic setting in Nigeria’s former capital Lagos.
Adesoji +44 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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