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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. Catholicism.
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.
The focus of this study is the interaction between Iban religion, traditionally one of ancestor worship and more recently syncretized with Christianity (Wadley, Pashia, & Palmer, 2006), and Iban cooperative practices, which usually consists of swidden rice horticulture, wild game hunting and fishing, and gathering wild vegetables (Wadley &
5 maj 2023 · Iban Religion. While most Iban people of today are Christian or Muslim, the tribe was traditionally animist.
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.
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