African religions See all related content Asase Yaa, in theindigenousreligion of theAkanpeople of theGuineaCoast, the great female spirit of the earth, second only to Nyame (the Creator) in power and reverence. The Akan regard the earth as a female spirit because of itsfertilityand its power...
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Religion is an important aspect in English and Chinese taboos exist, but because of their beliefs in the West of different religions, taboos also vary. 翻译结果4复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 Religious belief is English-Chinese taboos exist in the Arabic language one important aspect, but because...
States where they have been modified and still have a prominent place in many grassroots movements and religions such as Pentecostalism.209 Scholarship suggests that there are at least three fundamental elements of West African spirit possession that also exist in the worship of the Azusa Street ...
4 For the West-African students and ʿulamaʾ, common aspects in Middle Eastern attempts to return to an original Islam – which were quite different from the hitherto dominant North African influences and which had to be adapted to their local contexts – clearly overshadowed the finer ...
He was exposed to different cultures, languages, and religions, the latter including Zoroastrianism and Vedism (early Hinduism). He was a proponent of the Yogācāra (Sk: “Yoga practice”; Ch: Weishi zong, 唯識宗, “Consciousness Only”) school of Buddhism. He was super brave and intelligen...
2 Yet, because of the idea that the soul is immortal, religions of both the East and the West have developed a bewildering kaleidoscope of beliefs about the Hereafter. 2 Sin embargo, debí n’e idea cu e alma ta inmortal, religionnan di tantu Oriente como Occidente a desaroyá un kalei...
Lewis (2006) explains Yu’s stone birth is tied to ancient Chinese beliefs about the fertile, creative power of stone, as evidenced by the stone altar of the High Matchmaker (Gao mei, 高媒), which was historically prayed to for children by married couples, as well as legends of the ...
Indeed, they eventually constructed public religions, and entire civilizations, partly out of exactly these kinds of experiences. However, in our culture, increasingly dominated by physicalist narratives—stories in which an object or subject is, in the end, entirely material and so can ...
Needham (1986) suggests the cannon’s worship is connected to folk beliefs: “In Taoist folk-religion any device or machine of almost miraculous potency was something which should receive veneration” (p. 392 n. b). Update: 10-05-24 ...