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For hundreds of years, the Iban's ancestors practiced their own traditional custom and pagan religious system. European Christian colonial invaders, after the arrival of James Brooke , led to the influence of European missionaries and conversions to Christianity .
The Iban religion involves worshiping and honouring at least four categories of beings, i.e. Bunsu Petara (the supreme god), and his seven deities (the divine people of Tansang Kenyalang), the holy spirits of Orang Panggau Libau and Gelong, the ghost spirits (Bunsu Antu) and the souls of dead ancestors.
28 gru 2023 · In this paper, we describe one such society, the Iban, whose religious practices are often claimed to not include the worship of ancestors, despite ancestors being central to their religion.
From the perspective that religious behaviour involves communication among the living within the context of important social relationships, this article examines ancestor worship and the violation of mourning taboos among Iban in West
Iban Rites of Passage and Some Related Ritual Acts is an indispensable work for Iban scholars, both local and foreign, and particularly for those who have only recently taken up Iban studies.
This study investigates the present condition of religious co-existence in Bangladesh, a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic yet Muslim majority country in South Asia, on the basis of a sample survey conducted in Satkhira, a southern district of Bangladesh.
The Iban have created one of the most extensive bodies of folklore in human history, including more than one dozen types, of epic, myth, and chant. Women weave intricate fabrics, and men produce a variety of wood carvings.
