The essays in this volume deal with the relationship between living religious traditions in Canada and the fabric of Canadian society. Canada is a pluralistic society, ethnically and religiously. How are these two pluralisms related? Their connection is intimate, but never simple. For many years there could plausibly have been said to be a dominant Anglo-Canadian Protestant tradition, with other faiths and denominations being associated primarily with ethnic minorities. No doubt this would...
Church and Marriage in an Indonesian Village (Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, v. 55)
by John Mansford Prior
Large Print Liturgical Sacramentary of Samhain (Large Print Liturgical Sacramentary of Samhain, #1)
by L B O Ceallaigh
This Santeria Ritual Book is the most powerful and yet simple Santeria Magick you will ever do! In chapter 1 The Santeria Evocation Ritual shows you step by step how to easily summons the Santeria spirits for more money, health, love, psychic abilities, and many more things as well. You only need a rope, bell, candle, incense and 10 minutes to get started immediately. In chapter 2 every major Santeria Spirit is listed with a description for your every particular request and every quality about t...
More than a hundred and twenty five years ago, at the height of the colonial era in South Africa, a group of people came together in Cape Town under remarkable circumstances. The project upon which they embarked involved nothing less than the writing down of the language and beliefs of the /Xam people, a Bushman group that once lived their traditional way of life over much of what is now South Africa. The significance and value of the labours of Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and their /Xam teachers...
A description of the Druze faith, and their mutual cooperation with the Jews.
Yemonja - Tranquil Sea, Tranquil Tides
by Lloyd Weaver and Olukunmi Egbelade
Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth told here for the very first time in illustrated form. In the beginning there was nothing a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first sparks of life into these islands. The 1300 year-old Kojiki myth traces the beginnings of the Japanese people, following the rise of the Japanese islands from their humble origins as a lump of clay to a great nation that would one day take its r...
Presents a narrative history and analysis of the Assyrian experience in 20th century Iraq. Who are the Assyrians and what role did they play in shaping modern Iraq? Were they simply bystanders, victims of collateral damage who played a passive role in the history of Iraq? And how have they negotiated their position throughout various periods of Iraq's state building processes? This book details the narrative history of Iraq in the 20th century and reinserts the Assyrian experience as an integral...
Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people Women in Yoruba Religions examines the profound influence of Yoruba culture in Yoruba religion, Christianity, Islam, and Afro-Diasporic religions such as Santeria and Candomblé, placing gender relations in historical and social contexts. While the coming of Christianity and Islam to Yorubaland has posed significant challenges to Yoruba gender relations by propagating patria...
An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the overlapping religions that have developed as a result of the creolization process. Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. From Vodou, Santeria, Regla de Palo, the Abakua...
"Ocak" Und "Dedelik" (Heidelberger Studien Zur Geschichte Und Kultur Des Modernen, #36)
Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, einen Einblick in die traditionellen Institutionen des Alevitentums zu geben und insbesondere deren Veranderungen im 20. Jahrhundert zu thematisieren. Die Aleviten bilden eine Religionsgemeinschaft, die sich in ihrer Grundungserzahlung auf die fruhislamische Geschichte, d. h. die Leidensgeschichte der unmittelbaren Nachkommen des Propheten Mohammed und in ihrer Praxis auf die islamische Mystik bezieht. In seiner heutigen Form hat sich das Alevitentum in Anatolien zwisc...
