Major Western Religions 西方主要宗教 AnOverviewoftheOrigins,Histories,Customs,Practices,MajorEvents,Leaders,ImportantPeople,andHolidaysthatareassociatedwithMajorWesternReligions Judaismisthereligion,philosophy,and“wayoflife”fortheJewishPeople.FirstReligiontobelieveinMono-...
the society and culture of major english-speaking countries 热度: PART1-7 Pictures: •People:MargaretThatcher撒切尔夫人,QueenElizabethII伊丽莎白二世,currentPMofthecountrieswestudied,Aborigine,Maori,TorresStraitIslander •Sportsandholidays:Christmas,TroupingtheColour,Eisteddfod,RemembranceDay,StPatrick’sDay,...
Christianity was introduced to Japan by St. Francis Xavier in 1549. Catholic missionaries had considerable success for nearly one century before the military government expelled them and made the practice of Christianity a crime punishable by death. Christianity was again made legal in the 1870s. At...
Instead, there has been a mixture of traditional beliefs and Christianity. This kind of religion is particularly common among urbanites. There are also fervent Christians who view ancestral belief as outdated and sinful. 6 • MAJOR HOLIDAYS The Zulu recognize the national holidays of the ...
RELIGION: Christianity: Lutheran Church; Orthodox Church; small groups of Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists, Catholics, Mormons, Baptists; Judaism 1 • INTRODUCTION As an independent nation, Finland is less than one hundred years old. The Finns, however, have been around for since the eighth ...
RELIGION:Christianity; Islam; indigenous beliefs 1 • INTRODUCTION Uganda's ethnic history is largely the result of two population movements that occurred betweenAD1000 and 1500. Cattle herders, known as Hima, moved into exclusively agricultural areas. They contributed to the development of centralized...
Their leader, Harald Fairhair, unified the country around the year 900, and King Olaf converted the Norwegians to Christianity. The Vikings were the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean, a feat accomplished with Erik the Red's voyages to Iceland and Greenland. Erik's son, Leif Erikson, ...
RELIGIONS: Islam (Sunni Muslims, majority); Orthodox Christianity; Sufism; Old Believers; Protestantism; Judaism 1 • INTRODUCTION There are many Turkic-speaking ethnic groups living throughout the Russian Federation. These diverse groups lie scattered from the Caucasus and Ural mountains to eastern...
Today, most Polynesians are followers of Christianity, both Catholicism and Protestantism. Some traditional beliefs and mythologies have been incorporated into Christian ideology. 6 • MAJOR HOLIDAYS Holidays in most contemporary Polynesian societies are events related to the state or the church. In ...
during the first two centuries ofChristianitythere was strong opposition to recognizing birthdays ofmartyrsor, for that matter, of Jesus. Numerous Church Fathers offered sarcastic comments about the pagan custom of celebrating birthdays when, in fact, saints and martyrs should be honoured on the days...