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Numerous local people and certain missionaries have sought to document and preserve traditional Dayak religious practices. For example, Reverend William Howell contributed numerous articles on the Iban language, lore, and culture between 1909 and 1910 to the Sarawak Gazette.
Texas now holds not only the largest Evangelical Protestant population, but also the largest Muslim population, and the second largest Hindu population in the United States.
1 gru 1995 · Geographic isolation and social subordination profoundly affected the religious life of Mexican Americans in Texas. Over time, Tejanos crafted a religiosity deeply rooted in their history that mirrored their ethnic identity and expressed their quest for self-determination.
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.
Texas was in the path of the movement. First Protestant Church Organized. Protestantism made its first inroads into Texas between 1815 and 1817. In extreme Northeast Texas, which was considered to be part of Arkansas at the time, circuit-riding Methodist preachers made trips into the region.
Religions Texas is a digital public humanities initiative that explores Texas as a site of religious encounter and a meeting place for people and communities from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds.
Iban religion is a product of a holistic approach to life, in which attention is paid to all events in the waking and sleeping states. The religion involves an all-embracing causality, born of the Iban conviction that "nothing happens without cause."
