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Some Indian Muslims also visit Sufi shrines decorated with lights and colorful flowers. In the United States, where Muslims make up a diverse minority, gathering at mosques and Islamic centers when possible for iftar meals and prayers provides many Muslim families with a sense of community. Some...
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The temple pavilion backs onto the Surya Kund, a huge stepwell studded with more than 100 small shikharas (spired temples) and shrines, like a sunken art gallery of carved stone. The whole complex was the brainchild of king Bhimdev I, whose wife was responsible for the enormous Rani-ki-...
Some Indian Muslims also visit Sufi shrines decorated with lights and colorful flowers. In the United States, where Muslims make up a diverse minority, gathering at mosques and Islamic centers when possible for iftar meals and prayers provides many Muslim families with a sense of...
In this study, I analyze a nationally representative sample of Japanese adults and examine whether the subjective importance of religious identity is associated with the frequency of visiting places such as temples, shrines, or churches for prayer. The results show that there is a bivariate ...
Some Indian Muslims also visit holy shrines dedicated to Sufi saints, sites that are decorated with lights and colorful flowers. In the United States, home to a diverse,small but growingMuslim population, gathering at mosques and Islamic centers when possible for iftar meals and pr...
AcrossJapan, in freezing winter, thousands of men strip naked — except for a delicate piece of crotch-covering white loincloth — to jostle around their local shrines. Each participant tries to get as close as possible to a man playing the role of “shin-ot...