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3 sty 2022 · This historical analysis reveals the background of the sociocultural, linguistic, religious, and political struggle and development in the Bengal region and today’s Bangladesh, and the forces that contributed to the construction of ideologies associated with the languages.
9 lip 2020 · These two divisive identities based on language and religion, one pitted against the other, each became the central platform of each of the two major political parties, the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
5 cze 2018 · Religion also plays a role in creating a divide in the language communities of Bangladesh. The two major religious communities, Muslims and Hindus, use different words related to their religious traditions to denote their ideas.
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.
We demonstrate that many of the gods and spirits of the Iban supernatural pantheon are most clearly understood as ancestors. Furthermore, we argue that the Iban example may not be an outlier, and that ancestor worship may be prevalent in many more societies than previously claimed.
The oral literature of the Ibans can be divided for convenience into historical accounts; religious literature, which includes the long chants and songs which accompany ritual actions; myths and legends; and secular literature, such as riddles, sayings, etc.
Introduction. The sociology of language and religion explores some of the same terrain as linguistic anthropology, this author’s disciplinary home. Anthropology is increasingly engaged in analysing history (change), a major concern of SLR (Fishman Decalogue principle No. 2).
