The article will provide an overview of Buddhist attitudes towards death, describe the care given with respect to the family's cultural and religious wishes and emphasise the importance of assessing spiritual and religious needs at the end of life. Specific rituals/traditions surrounding death and ...
There isn’t a pronounced variation in funeral rituals among Hispanics of Cuban, Puerto Rican and Dominican descent. One custom that does differ in the Latin American culture, as compared to other cultures, is the use of photography of the deceased during parts of the funeral rite. A family ...
Specifically, I will examine the rites of passage in African American girls/women lived reality and effects of the intersectional race, class and gender oppression in America coupled with discussing Japanese different rituals comparison to American outlook into death and the afterlife. All in all, ...
Pashupatinath Temple is one of the seven UNESCO Cultural Heritage Sites of the Kathmandu Valley. It is also a cremation site where the last rites of Hindus are performed. The rituals of cremation are not for the faint-hearted; still visitors are seen watching curiously from across the river fr...
(ak). What is interesting in Turkish is that the seas surrounding the Turkish peninsula and Anatolia take their names from these colour associations: the Mediterranean, which is west of Turkey, is calledAkdeniz, or theWhite Sea, the Red Sea isKızıl Deniz, and is located to the south...
Expat credentials:Growing up in rural Massachusetts, Gilbert never traveled as a youth. But the death of her grandfather from a severe form of dementia changed all that. It set her on a path to seek out how to become bilingual in the belief that bilingualism helps delay the onset of the ...
A Luo proverb "Biye ojemo ni ng'wen" [69] means "The fierce white ants cause the death of the kind and harmless ants" (white ants are termites). "Biye" are the termites that eat and destroy wooden built and grass- thatched Luo houses in East Africa. For that reason, whole termite...
Heritage and Genius Loci The concept of Genius Loci has been developed from the ancient Roman religion, where the 'spirit' of the place had a protective function, and specific rituals were made to give respect and ask 'permission' when building a new monument, road, or founding a new city...
Rituals can be looked upon as positive but they also can have a negative connotation when they lead to dangerous consequences. The village in the story has a ritual every year to hold a lottery, where the winner is stoned to death and this is a clear example how a ritual can be viewed...
the use of dogs to threaten or intimidate; physical assault including slapping or shaking; exposure to extreme heat or cold; threats of harm or death; isolation; sensory deprivation and over-stimulation; sleep deprivation; or the threat [of these] to an individual or to members of an individua...