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Hoodoo
(Paperback)
Monique Joiner Siedlak
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R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Handbook to Lothar Kaser's Textbook "Animism - A Cognitive
Approach." If we want to understand the animistic cognitive system
we must focus particularly on its concept of man. Access to it can
only be achieved by proceeding systematically. A basic prerequisite
for this is a knowledge of the language spoken by the people whose
culture is shaped by such an animistic system of thought.
Incidentally acquired knowledge is not enough to give the outsider,
whether missionary, teacher, doctor or nurse, the necessary
insights for operating effectively within a society governed by an
animistic cognitive framework. Why a textbook and a handbook on the
same subject? A textbook seeks to address foundational issues and
to ask general questions. A handbook on the other hand is concerned
to deal with qualitative and quantitative research. This book is
the companion volume of Lothar Kaser's textbook on Animism - A
Cognitive Approach and provides the interested researcher a tool to
guide one's own research into the cognitive aspects of a particular
dimension of animism, namely, the concept of man. Robert Badenberg,
trained at the Theological Seminary of the Liebenzell Mission.
Graduate study at the Columbia International University (M.A.).
Doctorate Degree from the University of South Africa (DTh). As
author, missionary (he worked in Africa from 1989 to 2003), and
mission ethnologist he commands much experience in this field.
The Knowledge Seeker tells the story of the developing
Indigenous-run education movement and calls forth the urgent need
to teach about Indigenous spirituality.
Contents: About Skergard, In Memory of Lorenz Frolich, Haakon Jarl
of Norway, Teaching Children Our Heathen Faith, The Dead In The
Mountains, The Nine Affirmations (9a), How To Make A Viking Shield,
Community (Prose), The Way of The Warrior, Ancestors (Prose), Path
of Northern Shadows. The name "Skertru Now" is symbolic, because
after Nine Years of "The Silence" it is the realization of Skertru,
the commonality of our belief system as written in "Old Norse
Religion, A Family Tradition, The Skergard Handbook." We have
survived the Nine Year Silence as an organization and now our words
will be shared with everyone. We chose a Raven holding three keys
as our logo because the first two ravens answer to Odin, the
third... we believe, answers to Holde.
Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era
represented the triumph of European conquest and religious
domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions
the ""cultural"" conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that
colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the
indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed
to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was
being challenged: pre-Columbian iconography integrated into
Christian imagery, altars oriented toward indigenous sacred
landmarks, and carefully recycled masonry. In Framing the Sacred,
Wake examines how the art and architecture of Mexico's religious
structures reveals the indigenous people's own decisions regarding
the conversion program and their accommodation of the Christian
message. As Wake shows, native peoples selected aspects of the
invading culture to secure their own culture's survival. In
focusing on anomalies present in indigenous art and their
relationship to orthodox Christian iconography, she draws on a wide
geographical sampling across various forms of Indian artistic
expression, including religious sculpture and painting, innovative
architectural detail, cartography, and devotional poetry. She also
offers a detailed analysis of documented native ritual practices
that - she argues - assist in the interpretation of the imagery.
With more than 260 illustrations, Framing the Sacred is the most
extensive study to date of the indigenous aspects of these churches
and fosters a more complete understanding of Christianity's
influence on Mexican peoples.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions in
the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago charts the development of
religion in the Caribbean by analyzing the ways ecstatic forms of
worship, enacted through trance performance and spirit mediumship,
have adapted to capitalism and reconfigured themselves within the
context of modernity. Showing how diasporic traditions of West
African Orisha Worship and South Asian Shakti Puja converged in
their ritual adaptations to colonialism in the West Indies, as well
as diverged politically within the context of postcolonial
multiculturalism, Keith McNeal reveals the unexpected ways these
traditions of trance performance have become both globalized and
modernized. The first book-length work to compare and contrast
Afro- and Indo-Caribbean materials in a systematic and
multidimensional manner, this volume makes fresh and innovative
contributions to anthropology, religious studies, and the
historiography of modernity. By giving both religious subcultures
and their intersections equal attention, McNeal offers a richly
textured account of southern Caribbean cultural history and pursues
important questions about the history and future of religion.
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