Search results for "Folk Religion" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • reached new levels of success during the folk revival of the 1960s, and ... who went on to make a major mark in the folk and rock music scenes. His ...
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  • ==Modern folk traditions== In the modern Greek folk tradition, the Lamia has survived and retained ...
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  • German language. Hex signs are a type of folk art that became common in ... " By contrast, supporters of the folk-art theory point out that ...
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  • Appalachian folk music, which comprised a major part of Acuff's ... which additionally made spirituality and religion an acceptable form of reverence ...
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  • and grandeur to Indian classical and folk compositions. In addition, many musical cultures used the overtone in their instrumentation and vocalisms ...
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  • have been transmitted in the form of folk tales such as the miji and ... Those folk tales include legendary places, and also recent events ...
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  • Delta by various blues collectors and folk music promoters in the early ... scene of the 1960s. He played at Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New ...
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  • in the system of African-American folk magic known as hoodoo. The ... as voodoo, which is a Caribbean creole folk religion. Hoodoo was predominant ...
    12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
  • Immortals (Ba Xian), a group of Daoist/folk deities who play an important ... *Fowler, Jeaneane. An Introduction to the Philosophy and Religion ...
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  • to find such virtues in ancient German folk songs and Norse poetry and ... a juridico-political state with that of the folk-nation as organic in its historical ...
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  • of the Souls (1936) and Pueblo Indian Religion (1939) were the results ... of the Souls (1936) and Pueblo Indian Religion (1939) are considered central ...
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  • musical ballads are in the repertory of American folk music. ... Border ballads are a subgenre of folk ballads collected in the area ...
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  • 15. A large number of legends and Russian folk songs were written in Vladimir’s ... that he was already interested in using religion as a unifying force in his ...
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  • regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to ... * Manning-Sanders, Ruth. Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy ...
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  • 1928, he published a 12-volume series of folk tales and poems under the ... writing with Douglas Fox, African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa ...
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  • vehicle which contained the culture, religion, and identity of a people ... are the highest form of clergy in the religion, whose responsibility it ...
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  • legend in later centuries, and various folk customs and religious traditions ... Many folk tales and legends of Saint Agnes circulated in Europe in ...
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  • the most important gods in the Daoist and folk pantheons. In his capacity ... by Daoists and adherents of Chinese folk religion (two categories that ...
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  • social issues, most notably drawing on folk medicine in the teaching and ... and presentation of traditional forms of folk arts, craft, folk music, and ...
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  • In his work, he tried to bridge the gap between science and religion ... variations emerge. Völkergedanken (folk ideas) develop as a result ...
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