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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 ...

==Modern folk traditions== In the modern Greek folk tradition, the Lamia has survived and retained ...

native Shintoist religious music and folk songs called saibara; komagaku ... gagaku performances. The Tenrikyo religion uses gagaku music as part ...

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 ...

Appalachian folk music, which comprised a major part of Acuff's ... which additionally made spirituality and religion an acceptable form of reverence ...

and grandeur to Indian classical and folk compositions. In addition, many musical cultures used the overtone in their instrumentation and vocalisms ...

have been transmitted in the form of folk tales such as the miji and ... Those folk tales include legendary places, and also recent events ...

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 ...

in the system of African-American folk magic known as hoodoo. The ... as voodoo, which is a Caribbean creole folk religion. Hoodoo was predominant ...

Immortals (Ba Xian), a group of Daoist/folk deities who play an important ... *Fowler, Jeaneane. An Introduction to the Philosophy and Religion ...

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 ...

Zunis were more eager to tell him their own folk tales. He also took some Zuni ... * Cushing, Frank H. 1986 (original published in 1901). Zuni Folk Tales ...

of the Souls (1936) and Pueblo Indian Religion (1939) were the results ... of the Souls (1936) and Pueblo Indian Religion (1939) are considered central ...

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 ...

musical ballads are in the repertory of American folk music. ... Border ballads are a subgenre of folk ballads collected in the area ...

regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to ... * Manning-Sanders, Ruth. Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy ...

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 ...

vehicle which contained the culture, religion, and identity of a people ... are the highest form of clergy in the religion, whose responsibility it ...

===Plants in religion and ritual=== [[Image:Urarina_shaman_B_Dean.jpg ... Folk classification refers to how members of a language community ...

the most important gods in the Daoist and folk pantheons. In his capacity ... by Daoists and adherents of Chinese folk religion (two categories that ...

legend in later centuries, and various folk customs and religious traditions ... Many folk tales and legends of Saint Agnes circulated in Europe in ...

social issues, most notably drawing on folk medicine in the teaching and ... and presentation of traditional forms of folk arts, craft, folk music, and ...

In his work, he tried to bridge the gap between science and religion ... variations emerge. Völkergedanken (folk ideas) develop as a result ...

century. The integration of southern "folk" blues with the urban ... be Satisfied." "...That’s my religion, blues." ...

are simply attitudes characteristic of folk psychology or common sense ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:Philosophy Proposition|234251656 ...

It contains countless references to religion, ideology, and local customs ... and which is widely used in Tibetan folk songs, narrative poems, lyrical ...

without the limitation of organized religion. Since there is a vast variety of New Age Music with influences from every culture, one will find ...

derivatives. India has a rich tradition of folk painting and the decorative ... with diverse local manifestations. Folk religion in Hinduism may explain ...

studies of mythology and comparative religion. His bestseller, The Golden ... The study of mythology and religion was Frazier’s area of expertise ...

|observedby = Buddhists, Taoists, Chinese folk religion believers ... *[http://www.religionfacts.com/ghost-festival Ghost Festival] Religion ...

characterized by a largely lyrical form of folk poetry based on syllabic quantity ... The first fragmentary records of Estonian folk poetry dating from the thirteenth ...

Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion 140926792 ...

Immortals (Ba Xian), a group of Daoist/folk deities who play an important ... *Fowler, Jeaneane. An Introduction to the Philosophy and Religion ...

remain highly important to these mountain folk, but the climbing industry ... Buddhism over Bon, the ancient animistic religion of Tibet. ...

Latin term suggesting "uneducated country folk"). ... apart from historical rural (paganus) folk religion. The Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið ...

of Demeter in the pan-Hellenic Mystery Religion (discussed below), worship ... She was especially popular with rural folk, partly because they most ...

== Anthropomorphism in religion == From the perspective of believers of a religion where the deity or deities ...

gods remained an important part of folk belief. For these reasons ... * Turville-Petre, Gabriel. Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion ...

Folk traditions in China and other East Asian countries have added ... goddess. She introduced into Chinese religion (and especially Buddhism ...

up gradually by Christian theologians and folk-religionists. ... Times. Islam, in their view, is the false religion and of the Antichrist, otherwise ...

I Ching is still used by adherents of folk religion. The I Ching became the ... lines. The airs are in the style of folk songs, although the extent ...

classical music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently ... centuries from existing religious, folk, and theatrical performance ...

about whether certain elements of Chinese folk religion (including ancestor veneration, devotional practices at Confucian academies and the various ...

and understood the power of music in religion as a guidance towards the ... However, Matthias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who during the journeyman ...

belong to an earlier Nordic Bronze Age religion of Scandinavia, and were ... of English and Scottish origin, as well as folk tales, many involving trips ...

music with koto, biwa and shamisen, folk music, jazz, and other modern ... This did not have much effect on non-Fuke folk traditions, since the tunes ...

these offshoots in the name of organized religion, or compete with them for ... classified Taoism into Philosophical or Folk-religions (Daojiao and Daojia). ...

Kathakali has its origins almost 1500 years ago in the early ritual ... several outside elements from the folk and martial arts of Kerala ...

A modern example of hierogamy is seen in the religion of Wicca. In ... *Dever, William G., Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion ...

Magic is thus distinguished both from religion and science: From religion ... and formulas were combined with Germanic folk rituals to cure ailments. ...

Humanity often searches for meaning in science, religion, or philosophy ... etiological myths are similarly based on folk etymology (the term "Amazon ...

revived, although remaining a minor religion. ===Dangun in Taekwon-Do=== ... *Covell, Alan Carter. Folk art and magic: Shamanism in Korea. Seoul ...

the story is steeped in Chinese folk religion and Buddhist and Daoist ... West has a strong background in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology and ...

Koguryo made Buddhism their state religion in 372, Silla before 514 ... retreat hut. He became a legendary Korean folk hero because of his devotion ...

of Stories Translated from the Korean Folk Lore. New York: G.P. Putnam ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:History Category:Korea ...

A fairy (fey or fae; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace ... lived on, in a dwindled state of power, in folk belief. Many beings who are ...

studies he became acquainted with folk poetry and his doctoral thesis ... Finnish folk poetry had long existed in the oral tradition and had ...

Williams, and Aaron Copland collected folk songs and used folk themes ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of ...

were often innocent and God-fearing folk suffering from the witchcraft ... although this was not a feature of the folk legends. Montague Summers ...

form. It is generally regarded as a form of folk theater, but possesses strong ... vigor after the tenth century, taking religion to the lower classes of ...

provided in Works and Days is an incorrect folk etymology. Pandora properly ... * Harrison, Jane Ellen. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ...

fair has snake charmers, puppeteers, acrobats and folk performers. Camels, of course, play a stellar role in this festival, where the rich and colorful ...

The religion of the ancient Israelites and Canaanites centered on ... *Dever, William G., Did God Have A Wife? Archeology And Folk Religion ...

(Book of Songs), a collection of poems from folk songs or songs performed at ... (Book of Songs), a collection of poems from folk songs or songs performed at ...

morality" over supernatural religion and metaphysics, constituted ... both used rhythms and themes from Czech folk dances and songs. Late in ...

quot; or "way," but in Chinese religion and philosophy it has taken ... its ritual activity from that of the folk religion, which some professional ...

(sometimes called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its ... to its more traditional position as a folk religion which is culturally ingrained ...

Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 141034448 ...

of the superiority of Hindu culture and religion, he was doing so in defense ... Hindu priests discouraged common folk from reading Vedic scriptures ...

weight to the assertion that the popular religion of that period, if not the ... *Dever, William G. Did God Have A Wife? Archeology And Folk Religion ...

histories. They did not have a formalized religion with ceremonies, rituals ... and Atsugewi Tales.] Journal of American Folk-Lore XXI(81): 159-177. Retrieved ...

The legends of Krishna are of utmost importance to the religion, art ... forms such as Odissi, Manipuri, and various folk dances have developed to commemorate ...

Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... that another popular African American folk trickster, Brer Rabbit, ( ...

describes the myths, witchcraft, and religion of ancient China in great ... *Chinese folk religion *List of deities *I Ching *Bagwa ...

Parshvanatha, an important figure in the religion. A lesser felt cultural ... forms are highly visible. In many cases the folk music and traditional methods ...

Attracted to folk theater, Nazrul joined a leto (travelling theatrical ... songs into the mainstream of Bengali folk music, exploring the Islamic ...

to Jewish identity are unknown, a popular folk story tells that the Star ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 101833279 ...

at Cill-Dara (Kildare) became a center of religion and learning and eventually ... many forms and is technically classed by folk crafts experts as a "plaited ...

was to be the "servant" of religion. For the Church elders of ... not only in forming their attitude toward religion, but also in adapting worship ...

choirs to sing his hymns set to Syriac folk tunes in the forum of Edessa ... poetic imagery drawn from biblical sources, folk tradition, and other religions ...

eventually became the normative Jewish religion, and this in turn was inherited ... *Dever, William G. Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion ...

* Bruce, Dickson D. And They All Sang Hallelujah; Plain-Folk Camp ... Category:philosophy and religion category:religion category:Christianity ...

her essay "A primer on the Latvian folk religion," Amanda Jātniece ... com/a-primer-on-the-latvian-folk-religion/ A primer on the Latvian ...

first of these two traditions is Turkish folk literature, and the second ... the salient difference between the folk and the written traditions ...

social groupings of hunting and fishing folk gathered around campfires. ... desire, the other being dharma, 'religion or morally proper conduct ...

codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior ... Like the other major religions, folk religion answers human needs for ...

*Dever, William G. Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion ... *Eliade, Micrea: The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion ...

drama, and artistic ethics. In religion, catharsis refers to efforts ... Almost every religion has rituals of cleansing, purification, and ...

) and are a brief glimpse of early Hebrew religion, most of the details ... knowledge of a historical Abraham, or via folk memory that passed down to ...

The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ... Historically, sociology of religion was of central importance to sociology ...

reduction concerning everyday "folk" psychological theory ... category:Philosophy and religion Category:philosophy 109363918 ...

without evidence. The popularity of these folk etymologies probably owes ... It is considered in the Zarathushtri religion to be of vital importance ...

to divination. However, among the common folk and some mystics, the practice ... ceased almost completely. The new religion forbade all kinds of divination ...

Lao artistic traditions developed around religion and the political and social ... rituals also have ancient roots; the Lao folk genres lam saravane and lam ...

Year (Spalicek), which refers to illustrated folk songbooks and also a piece of wood) is a very significant piece in Trnka's career. It was his ...

fans made of feathers. In folk tales, these fans sometimes have the ... the tengu are common in both literature and folk tales (described below). ...

Even though Andorra lacks a formal religion, the predominant religion ... it with a rich folklore and an abundance of folk tales, with roots originating ...

more than superficial references to religion and actual places, persons ... literary fairy tales which do not drawing on folk tradition. ...

in the Czech Lands and enacted freedom of religion. He also eliminated the ... known for its beautiful scenery and rich folk traditions. As his son Vojtech ...

*Dever, William G. Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 103328531 ...

(Arabic,مندائية) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic ... has been reported of them and their religion has come primarily from ...

local autonomy, having their own militia, religion, court, and lands. ... * Barton, H. Arnold. A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans ...

their knowledge was generally derived from folk medicine and natural remedies ... of women, including old women who continued folk medical traditions in the ...

primary language to a second language of religion and learning, used by the ... primary language to a second language of religion and learning, used by the ...

was to be the "servant" of religion. For the Church elders of ... morality" over supernatural religion and metaphysics, constituted ...

nature of carnatic music, Tamil folk music tends toward the exuberant ... Karakattam constitutes the most notable of Tamil folk dances. The ...

major works deal with the sociology of religion and government, but he also ... for his later work on the sociology of religion and sociology of government. ...

her husband worked. Dabotap received the folk name Yong-t'ap (Shadow ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:History ...

preserve the previously granted freedom of religion. ==First Defenestration ... Among Hus’s predecessors were "folk" priests: ...

with no place for the consolations of religion or hope. Set in a half-imaginative ... Housman was himself aware this his simple, folk-like poems were out of step ...

Psychologists have gathered data on commonly held beliefs or folk ... Category:philosophy and religion 143752896 ...

In the philosophy of religion, Ockham's razor is sometimes applied ... is the thesis that the ontology of folk psychology, including such ...

marriage, dress reform, women's suffrage and religion. ... #039;s franchise, divorce, labor, and religion. Of love and marriage she ...

According to the Hindu religion, Shakti (Sanskrit: meaning force, ... hips and busts. This suggests that Shakta religion has persisted in India for ...

Saint Ansgar introduced Christianity around 829, but the new religion ... === Religion === Before the eleventh century, Swedes adhered to Norse ...

Christian religious practice and of the religion itself. ... destinations. Catechizing in the home, folk religion, syncretic and heterodox ...

the Hasidic communities actualized their religion in daily life and culture ... often applied to other fields, such as religion, ethics, politics, social ...

incorporating and transforming local folk music forms. As the popularity ... form, but they have an oral culture. Their folk songs were passed on to new ...

For many centuries, Theravada Buddhism has been the predominant religion ... . It is also a significant minority religion in many other Asian countries ...

# the Chinese folk religion. Kohn 2000, XXIX. The English word "Daoism ... haphazardly) applied to Chinese folk religion, which would not otherwise ...

orchestral composition or a plaintive folk song, the range of responses ... century the global appeal of jazz, blues, folk music, and rock and roll advanced ...

evil, Ravana has been a popular subject of folk art and sculpture throughout ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 148885026 ...

Empire often used the military to spread religion, a movement illustrated ... Yoruba religion and mythology is a major influence in West Africa ...

of the African slaves and the traditional folk music brought from the British ... In general, country music is based on the folk music of white southerners ...

studied Shugen-do (修験道, Japanese folk religion, practitioners attempt ... Category:Philosophy and religion 29174380 ...

consider it to have been the "state religion" of imperial China ... :(c) a Chinese folk religion. The character Tao 道 (or Dao, depending ...

or nāgas still rule over it, and river folk hold annual sacrifices for ... and Yakshas." In The Encyclopedia of Religion. Volume 9. Ed. Lindsay Jones ...

When used for worship in Chinese folk religion, cored incensed sticks ... The incense sticks burned in Chinese folk religion temples can have a thickness ...

within the Ottoman Empire based on religion. The conquered land was ... they were caught practicing a non-Muslim religion once they converted to Islam. ...

Classical Korean literature has its roots in traditional folk beliefs ... are reflected in a variety of poems such as folk songs, elegies to heroic hwarang ...

tales, the Devil is portrayed as more of a folk villain than as the personification ... #039;s Chimney. He also plays a role in folk music, such as the American ...

the east Indian cultural practitioners, a folk theatre featuring skits and ... *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/holydays/diwali ...

The folk music incorporates multiple influences in a syncretic fashion, including English contredanse, polka and mazurka; French folk and pop; ...

veneration and to make sure that their folk hagiographies were in keeping ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion Canonization|82293554 ...

religion, as well as Hinduism and Chinese folk religion. ... they often persist as undercurrents of folk religion. This category includes ...

style that fuses about ten of the country's folk music traditions. Tina and tinga are other popular genres, while extent folk traditions include ...

=== Religion === According to official statistics from 2002, 84.1 percent ... [[Image:Faroese folk dance club from vagar.jpg|thumb|275px|Faeroese ...

used in traditional cultural activities, such as folk music, or folk dance. A radio news program is also broadcast in the language [http://www.okinawabbtv ...

culture of moral laxity. Philosophers of religion who view religion's ... of religious thought. Early scholars of religion, most significantly E. B ...

did not share the attitude of some church folk that the blues was "devil ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:Christianity Category:religious ...

chicken also has played roles in Chinese religion, Hindu ceremonies, ancient ... ==Chickens in religion and culture== [[Image:Rhode island red 1915 ...

== Contemporary Christian folk beliefs == Some Christian traditions ... In many informal folk beliefs among Christians concerning the afterlife ...

in Russia and the Ukraine, documenting folk beliefs and stories of the ... Category:religion Category:mythology Category:Judaism 210374888 ...

note the struggle was not about religion. The Church's role ... fado. The most widespread form of native folk music was the likurai dance ...

of his experiences or of the customs and folk-lore of the country. I know ... * Men, Hunbatz. Secrets of Mayan science/religion. Santa Fe, NM: Bear ...

Zohar, R. Moses de Leon, was aware of the folk tradition of Lilith, as well ... In the folk tradition that arose in the early Middle Ages, Lilith ...

who continued to be venerated in the folk religion of Judah and was tolerated ... A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. Peter Smith Publisher Inc ...

The various sources employed include folk literature, inscriptions, ... all sections of society irrespective of religion or caste. In addition, various ...

An altar does not belong to any one religion or practice. An altar ... the departed spirit to use. In Taoist folk religion, sometimes chickens, ...

In 327 C.E., Christianity was declared the official state religion ... Mirian II, established it as the state religion. The date varies in the ...

than its neighbors. Though the official religion is Islam, Bahrainis are ... The official religion of Bahrain is Islam, which most of the population ...

and Ossianic poetry and the more recent folk song tradition in Irish. One ... Yeats' mystical inclinations, was informed by Hindu religion ...

Estonia until this time retained a pagan religion centered around a deity ... The predominant religion of indigenous ethnic Estonians has traditionally ...

cat or snake meat, and those who observe the folk religion known as Miluotuo do not eat the meat of sows or hawks. [http://www.chinatour360.com/chines ...

health care systems, and invest in the state religion, Islam. ... ethnically related and share the Islamic religion. Chinese make up 15 percent ...

Diószegi and Mihály Hoppál, [1968] Folk Beliefs and Shamanistic Traditions ... in the Bodies of All Beasts,” in Eskimo Folk-Tales, trans. W. Worster, ...

literature has its roots in traditional folk beliefs and folk tales of ... citizens profess to follow no particular religion. Christians account for ...

| religion = [Russian Orthodox] | notableworks= Crime and Punishment ... work, the epistolary short novel, Poor Folk, published in the periodical ...

of these two traditions is attested to in a folk etymology preserved within ... :See Also: Hell (in Ancient Greek Religion) Like other first-century ...

Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ... Religion in Korea has a multi-faceted character. Shamanism, a tribal ...

inexhaustible knowledge of mythology, religion, and philosophy. Jung was ... of the archetypes in his study of tribal folk lore, mythology and fairy ...

Songsi Dashu, and others, as well as many folk myths, all contain references ... that flood myths could have arisen from folk stories related to the huge ...

Interwoven into much of Uruguay’s folk music, art and drama is the ... the well-known tango dance. Also popular is folk and waltz music, as well as ...

heritage with the cities of Islam. Religion also helped to ease the ... is largely derived from oral histories and folk tales of tribes from the Wadi ...

Religion is one of the fault lines between indigenous Fijians and ... An indigenous art form is the meke, a kind of spiritual folk dance ...

have been able to preserve their culture and religion. Whites and people ... The predominant religion is Roman Catholicism, with Hinduism, Islam ...

describes fiddle music and a variety of folk dances. There was no harp ... A roots revival of Manx folk music began in the 1970s, alongside a ...

came under the influence of the Vajrayana religion. Vajrayana Buddhism survived ... Buddhism is still practiced as a folk religion in Mongolia today despite ...

Roman Catholicism is the most practiced religion. The islands constituting ... due particularly to their disdain of religion. The attempted financial ...

it was God's will that Canaanite religion be completely eliminated ... *Dever, William G. Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion ...

Qur'an. Arab writings relating to religion also includes many sermons ... to investigate more fully the Islamic religion were invaluable in studying ...

scenes of their associating with country folk; a shepherd's song; birdsongs; ... category:Philosophy and religion Category:philosophy Category:Art, ...

and traders. They learned of the Catholic religion through the Iroquois and ... Originally the Salish practiced an animistic religion with ceremonial ...

as forms of utopianism, especially in their folk-religious forms. Such religious ... Category:Philosophy and religion 88884514 ...

Hindu moral tales. Later, this mixture of religion and wayang play was cited ... course of time, it also became a popular and folk form. ...

The artistic traditions of Bön, the indigenous religion of the Himalayas ... Bön, the indigenous shamanistic religion of the Himalayas, contributes ...

to look for answers in various forms of religion. His naturally sharp and ... community direction), and the practice of folk medicine. Consequently, the ...

|rels=Christianity (incl. syncretist forms), Zuni religion ... The Zuni continue to practice their traditional religion with its ...

There are also many folk traditions in Georgia that vary from Georgian ... Category: Religion Category: Philosophy and religion Category: History ...

of his life helping others come closer to religion, and most especially to ... of life, and led to his rejection of religion. Albert dealt with his loss ...

especially in the mainstream culture and religion in the West. ... talk of the mental is simply a fiction of folk psychology and will eventually ...

Folk feng shui developed thousands of years ago in small villages ... Between State Orthodoxy and Popular Religion. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai ...

Thor was the focus of numerous Norse folk tales and he was seen to ... * Turville-Petre, Gabriel. Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion ...

as a pervasive social philosophy rather than a religion. ... * National Folk Museum (국립민속박물관; 國立民俗博物館) ...

deeply rooted in the culture's religion, spirituality, and its view ... from the underworld.Ake Hultkrantz, The Religion of the Goddess in North ...

official supplanting of the pagan Roman religion, or following his death ... religious communities have secondary religion schools in Skopje. There ...

*Dever, William G. Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion ... Category:philosophy and religion 128955166 ...

in the founding of Hindu philosophy and religion, Avanti became a key region ... Lavani, a widely practised form of folk music in southern Malwa, ...

The Spanish promptly established the Catholic religion in Quito, with ... charms lies in the tapestry of legends and folk tales. Legends have an important ...

is often a blurred line between myth, religion and unexplained phenomenon ... art encompasses all facets of fine art, folk art and performance art. Porcelain ...

of the practices and customs of their religion. She became the inspiration ... more than anything which made him a folk hero of near mythological ...

after the god, due to its numerous uses in folk medicine. ... * Harrison, Jane Ellen. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ...

after World War II. Slovenes are an Alpine folk with more in common with northern ... Slovenia has a rich tradition of folk art, as well as outstanding ...

which analyzed the mental concepts of folk psychology in terms of functional ... are the subject matter of everyday "folk psychology." Should folk ...

sites, making it an important center of religion and religious pilgrimage ... forms also appear as well as images from folk traditions such as naga stones ...

sickness or death.[http://khoisan.org/religion.htm Reconstructing the Past ... abilities of its people. Traditional music, folk tales, proverbs, and praise ...

does not discriminate based on race or religion, and welcomes all women ... * Grandma Moses—renowned folk artist * Ginger Rogers—film and stage ...

by reducing the numbers of insects. In religion, amphibians have often been ... Amphibians also play an important role in human culture and religion ...

adopted by Persian emperors as a state religion and was practiced during ... the same work. Men control politics and religion, and are the breadwinners ...

fires in temples of the Zoroastrian religion. The other theory is that ... adopted Christianity as the state religion in the fourth century C ...

with organization of the traditional folk dance raas. === Caste system ... impossible. No women are trustees of the religion nor do they serve on any ...

literary categories of ritual, myth, and folk-tale” Northrop Frye. "The ... Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion. (Toronto: University of ...

bordering the Caspian Sea. They practice folk Islam, with some religious ... are quite elaborate, accompanied by folk dances, folk music,and sometimes ...

(pinyin: Huíjiào, literally "the religion of the Hui"), though ... with, but not defined by, the Islamic religion; descended primarily from ...

were given the choice to leave the Shaker religion and go their own separate ... and songs are a largely unrecognized aspect of folk art. ...

servants, people with education, or of religion, critics of the Khmer Rouge ... Cambodian folk music is influenced by ancient forms as well as Hindu ...

exterior and interior frescoes. Romanian folk tales and poems are about ... Romania is a secular state with no state religion. The dominant religious ...

it is left to the members of a religion to decide what is considered ... the average lay adherent of any religion would likely come to know ...

and the capture of King Jehoiachin. Indeed, folk wisdom suggests that Jeremiah ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 124841158 ...

history, a national trauma persisting in the folk memory. For moments of bad luck, they have a saying: "more was lost at Mohács" (Több is ...

altruistic-like behavior that is common in folk traditions and embedded in ... category:Philosophy and religion Category:philosophy 168803476 ...

republic, though Islam was the state religion. His inclinations and policies ... For himself, Atatürk rejected religion saying: I have no religion ...

the anti-religious fervor was stopped by the town-folk. However, when metal was needed for the large army the brass plaque in the center of the labyrinth ...

the acoustic guitar and formed a country–folk group that he called the ... 1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: Songs from a Room ...

Although Islam was introduced in the ninth century, the religion was ... and is closely related to Uzbek and Kyrgyz folk forms. Traveling bards, healers ...

known as Jain Dharma, is a dharmic religion with its origins in the ... deities were assimilated from ancient Indian folk religion. ...

sheet, he spent time supporting literary folk: the alcoholic Monro, and ... *The Religion of Beauty: Selections From The Aesthetes (1950) anthology ...

the islanders adopted the Protestant religion and life became austere ... such interference with liberty of religion. The first Methodist minister ...

Scotia, the province remains best known for its folk and traditional based music. Its traditional (or folk) music is Scottish in character, and traditions ...

between the earliest period of the religion up until the nineteenth ... Church arose over whether Chinese folk religion rituals and offerings ...

In terms of religion, 96.1 percent of the population are Romanian ... throughout the year showcasing Romanian folk arts and crafts. ...

Edmonton is also host to the Edmonton Folk Music Festival ... , one of the most successful and popular folk music festivals in North ...

*Dever, William. Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion ... Category:Religion ...

mismatch between an establishment view and a folk view of taboos related to "prejudice" is connected to a frequently reported perception of ...

of Christianity as a state religion in 301. The History of Pavstos ... valuable information on the Zoroastrian religion and the political life of ...

== Religion == [[Image:Prayer wheels at Nechung Chok.JPG|thumb|left ... Festival are deeply rooted in indigenous religion and also embody foreign ...

discredit crude polemic, fabrications and folk-lore that misrepresented Islam ... was still hostile towards Islam as a religion but, says Irwin, "his ...

=== Bells in Japanese religion === Japanese Shintoist and Buddhist ... followed. This led to the association in folk memory between the distinctive ...

Sikhism is a religion that began in sixteenth-century Northern India ... As a religion, philosophy and way of life, Sikhism is centered on ...

Buddhism constituted the dominant religion, followed by Islam, and ... of traditional music appear: Court music, folk music, music styles of smaller ...

who could be appealed to directly by lay folk without the necessity or intervention ... * Young, Serenity, Ed. Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, Volume ...

of their worship in ancient Egyptian religion were derived from the myth. ... Ancient Greek and Roman writers, who described Egyptian religion late ...

both maintained their distinct styles of folk music. Country-wide folk traditions ... generation to generation. Greenlandic Inuit folk songs are performed to tell ...

of the Constitution of Norway. Freedom of religion is established in Article ... === Religion === [[Image:Borgundstavkirke.jpg|thumb|200px|Borgund stave ...

goes back thousands of years, and many folk tales seek to explain its ... Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors (John ...

Some Jews observe Christmas Eve as "Nittel Nacht", a minor ... * Vermes, Geza. The Nativity: History and Legend. Doubleday Religion ...

the comforts and breathes the spirit of religion." ... uneducated jargon of farmers and country folk whom Wordsworth praises so ...

fused the law of Constantinople with Serb folk custom. The economy, law, ... Most Serbs kept their culture and religion through the long period ...

state was to be free to determine the religion of its subjects free from ... Effectively, religion became separate from the State, even in countries ...

There is no state religion, although the Moldovan Orthodox Church ... Negur, and Gennadi Teciuc have appeared. Folk traditions, including ceramics ...

The majority of the population declare Hinduism as their religion ... Itinerant troupes cover the traditional folk arts the entire gamut of music ...

Membership Report] The Association of Religion Data Archives. Retrieved ... *Killen, Patricia O'Connell, and Mark Silk (eds.). Religion and ...

bridges, not barriers. Tagore favored a religion of humanity (Manusher Dhormo ... identity (jāti), personal freedom, and religion are developed in the context ...

deal of consolation for the Medieval common folk. Therefore this made Saint ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Biography 95099906 ...

the dangers of the palace in devotion to religion; and though his people called ... style, drawing on his knowledge of Russian folk music and rejecting the influence ...

period, both groups retained the Orthodox religion and other cultural attributes ... Orthodox Christianity is the dominant religion, there are also numerous ...

The origin of the name Fuji is unclear. An early folk etymology claims ... Japanese culture in art, literature, and religion throughout Japanese history ...

for a subject, and infused the fervor of religion into his conception of the ... honor due to his illustrious name. Great folk opened their houses to him ...

culture is the tradition of story telling, with folk tales bearing both African and French influences. The character Anancy, a spider god who is a trickster ...

In religion, folklore, and mythology, a demon (also rendered daemon ... under the influence of the Zoroastrianism religion of the Persian Empire, demonology ...

a diverse population of primarily Jewish religion and background, it is the ... Arab Christians and people who have no religion listed. Over the last decade ...

combines Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and folk beliefs, and the Protestant ... * Religion in Macau * Macau * People's Republic of China ...

The multiple gods of Maya religion also represented a mathematical ... supporting this theory comes from a folk tale that deals with the Orion ...

language to the degree they did their religion, although the Roman Catholic ... Also well known is the non-commercial folk genre Nueva Canción movement ...

words relating to agriculture, politics, religion and handicrafts, were borrowed ... * Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western ...

argued that Agnew had become "almost a folk hero" in the South and warned that party workers might see his removal as a breach of loyalty ...

brought up in as a child: Fairy stories, religion, or science fiction may ... *Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer ...

and went on to form the basis of Indus Valley religion. ... first seeds of what would become the Shakta religion. As these rituals ...

of interest in Celtic culture, including religion, art, music, and language ... Druids fulfilled a variety of roles in Celtic religion, as priests ...

diverse nation, with freedom of religion being enshrined as a constitutional ... * Lee, Jacques K. Sega: the Mauritian folk dance. London: Nautilus ...

Catholic Church over whether Chinese folk religion rituals and offerings ... of Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion by a form of Christianity ...

picked up elements of western Anatolian folk memory as the tale spread ... Category: Religion Category: Philosophy and religion Category: History ...

to adopt Christianity as its official religion. A former republic of the ... Religion in ancient Armenia was historically related to a set of beliefs ...

the Diegueño Indians.] Journal of American Folk-lore 21(82): 228-236. Retrieved ... *Euler, Robert C. 2002. Havasupai Legends: Religion and Mythology ...

|longtype = CulturalReligious(Chinese folk religion, Buddhist, Confucian ... food in more recent times. According to folk proverbs, if the weather on ...

by the Spirit of Evangelical Christian Religion" but "without ... Smith has numerous folk tales and ghost stories surrounding the campus ...

Nigerian music includes many kinds of folk and popular music, some of which are known worldwide. Styles of folk music are related to the multitudes ...

Inuit religion was closely tied to a system of rituals that were integrated ... Inuit folk music has long been based primarily off percussion, used ...

recognition to French law, the Catholic religion, and French language in ... The traditional folk music of Quebec has two main influences: the ...

The feast of Sol Invictus on December 25 was a sacred day in the religion ... Santa Claus is a variation of a Dutch folk tale based on the historical ...

stories of South American life: Stories of folk heroes, street fighters, soldiers ... and Jose Hernandez, author of the Argentine folk epic Martin Fierro, as his ...

Kyrgyz folk singing and music lessons are taught at school, and there are several Kyrgyz children's performance groups. Instruments include ...

of Korea. It features athletic events, folk games, music, dance, literary ... Buddhist institutions, reflecting that religion's enduring link to ...

western Tibet was still practicing the Bon religion. In the late fourth ... In the thirteenth century, Islam became the dominant religion in Kashmir ...

Folk literature includes the epic poems (dastans) Gorgut Ata and Göroglu ... is closely related to Kyrgyz and Kazakh folk forms. The Central Asian classical ...

quot;The 'Boar's Head Carol' and Folk Tradition." Folklore, 85, 3 (Autumn, 1974): 194-198. JSTOR. Saint Stephen may have inherited ...

coexist peacefully. The freedom of religion and the religious equality ... and Kuzman Shapkarev made collections of folk songs and made ethnographic ...

=== Religion === [[Image:Basilica di San Pietro front (MM).jpg|400px ... Roman Catholicism is by far the largest religion in the country. Although ...

long period and remained distinct in its religion, arts, language, and customs ... === Religion === [[Image:Cairo_mosques.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Cairo& ...

Borgund stave church from The Norse-folk; or, A visit to the homes ... century, on the subject of evolution and religion. Historica Botanica ...

of the Kanuku Mountains in the Rupununi. Folk uses of balatá included the making of homegrown cricket balls, the temporary filling of troublesome ...

in the form of warnings, so that folk may know that with which the ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 90925579 ...

the subjects of ethics, philosophy, and religion were mutually borrowed and ... to this apparent decline of their religion was growing, and reached ...

Christianity when it became the adopted religion of the Greco-Roman world ... as the Brightest Element of Soqotran Folk Poetry." Folia Orientalia ...

The hymns, psalms, and folk songs that immigrants to the United States ... Averill notes the hints of rapture, "quasi-religion," and ...

has museums, galleries, an International Folk Art Market and an Opera House ... * Museum of International Folk Art * Santa Fe Indian Market ...

over 50 percent declaring themselves to have no religion. ... the six symphonic poems My Country and the folk opera The Bartered Bride. ...

and cult fame in the United States. Folk singers like Peter, Paul ... ideas--particularly with regard to religion, social organization, and ...

King of Adat (Raja Adat), and the King of Religion (Raja Ibadat), and collectively ... Randai, a folk theater tradition incorporating music, singing, dance ...

few trees around to burn and the local religion (Buddhism) believes that ... a god of death into their mythology or folk religion. As death, along with ...

official supplanting of the pagan Roman religion, or following his death ... faith as the "prevailing" religion of the country, while guaranteeing ...

many monks actively practicing their religion there. == History == ... * Huo, Wei. China Shanxi village folk. Hong Kong: China Pub. House ...

of news, clear up the facts lest you afflict some folk out of ignorance and some morning feel regretful for what you may have done. … Do not spy on ...

Afghans display pride in their religion, country, ancestry, and above ... as languages, natural sciences, medicine, religion, and astronomy. They include: ...

such as African American culture, racism, religion, slavery, and a sense of ... of essays titled "The Souls of Black Folk." The book's essays ...

and theater, in marked contrast to the folk culture and native crafts ... of there. Conflicts over slavery and religion arose between the "old ...

thousand ethnic groups, and every major religion is represented, as are four ... thousand ethnic groups, and every major religion is represented, as are four ...

#039;s and James Joyce's inclusion of folk and pop-cultural material). ... # No absolute religion. This means to promote religious inclusivism ...

Religion is not indicated on national identity cards and passports ... pre-eminent centers for the study of the folk music of the Persian Gulf. ...

and Fordism, civil society, folklore, religion, and high and popular culture ... tied to folklore, popular culture and religion, and therefore much of his ...

The dominant religion in Ukraine is Eastern Orthodox Christianity ... in 1581. The sixteenth century included the folk epics called dumy, which celebrated ...

his message near Lahore. Therefore, the religion actually originated in Pakistan ... of Mahayana Buddhism, the form of the religion practiced today by most ...

of Spain's colonization, such as language and religion. ... Until recently, the form of folk music called bachata (a slow, romantic ...

each ruler had the right to determine his religion and that of his subjects. ... and Judaism, as well as those who have no religion. The influx of Eastern Europeans ...

when some islanders feared that their native folk art and customs were being lost. They started Culturama to reconnect people with their traditional ...

increasingly raucous celebrations common folk burnt effigies of the pope ... also to the celebration of freedom and religion, with elements of anti-Jacobitism ...

(c. 570 C.E.) in Mecca, and of the religion of Islam. Muslims believe ... Sheikh) in the position of ulama (learned in religion). ...

are now known as traditional medicine and folk medicine, though they do not ... philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology ...

is a New World manifestation of Bantu religion and spirituality. ... from traditional farmers to contemporary city folk. === Refugees === ...

narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory ... The elder Achebe stopped practicing the religion of his ancestors ...

Even though the state has no official religion nor promotes any, it actively ... the West. As Turkey transformed from the religion-based former Ottoman Empire ...

Burgess Moore, Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota (Minnesota ... Irish films and organizes concerts of Irish folk musicians. ...

Islam is the predominant religion of Dhaka's people, with a majority ... of music groups and rock bands, traditional folk music remains widely popular ...

* State folk dance: Clogging * State popular dance: Shag * State freshwater trout: Southern Appalachian Brook Trout * State birthplace of traditional ...

#039;s second largest after Edinburgh's. The folk music festivals in both Calgary and Edmonton are two of Canada's largest, and both cities ...

government agreed to separate religion from the state, ending 30 ... Each indigenous religion is unique to a specific ethnic group or part ...

== In religion == [[Image:Seven Days of Creation - 1765.jpg|thumb|300px ... *In W.E.B. Du Bois's book, The Souls of Black Folk, he refers ...

were the women in the family and the men folk were only allowed to enjoy ... had been picked up on in comparative religion and archaeology, and was ...

started me thinking seriously about my religion. I’ll never be anything ... ===American folk hero, 1936–1943=== ====1936–1939==== ...

to Lutheranism, the current mainstream religion. The Swedish kingdom settled ... Finland is a place rich in culture for history, tradition, and religion ...

slowly began to honor and recreate various folk compositions. Beneath the ... The essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived ...

of inspiration and life in terms of religion, philosophy, culture, and ... unorganized form is also considered a folk religion of China. ...

Under Soviet rule, religion was tightly controlled. Uzbeks from the ... were Muslim had any real knowledge of the religion or knew how to practice ...

name in the Roman Empire. Basing in this folk etymology, the belief that ... Category:philosophy and religion 153857901 ...

immortalist; saint" (in Daoist religion and pantheon) ... mountain-man; hermit; recluse" (folk etymology for the character 仙) ...

Theravada Buddhism as the official religion and compiled the Dharmashastra ... and is the religion of 95 percent of its people. Muslims represent ...

carnival season, especially for traditional folk dances like the tamborito ... recognizes Catholicism as the religion of the great majority, Panama ...

traditions as well as agriculture-based folk religion. The Shinto pantheon ... Category:philosophy and religion category:religion Japanese_folklore ...

abortifacient properties have been used in folk medicine: tansy, pennyroyal ... upon silphium as an abortifacient. Such folk remedies, however, varied ...

economic writing implied or directly addressed religion. ... from the harshest sides of their religion that had led to the abuses ...

to urban areas, and suppression of religion shattered traditional kinship ... Empires crowned Christianity as official religion of the regime, thus suffusing ...

htm Old-Time Fiddling: A Traditional Folk Art With Four Ozark Musicians ... Ozark religion, like that of Appalachia, was predominantly Baptist ...

The Russian Orthodox religion (with its rituals and sacred texts, ... music of Alaska Natives as well as folk music brought by later immigrants ...

In the mythology of traditional I-Kiribati religion, a giant spider ... Kiribati folk music is generally based around chanting or other forms ...

chemistry, mathematics, history, religion, music, literature, and ... themes such as racism, imperialism, and religion, and its cognizance and ...

Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion, and Buddhists comprised about ... enjoy royal patronage, and preserve ancient folk and religious customs and ...

translates to "City of God." The folk etymology explains the name ... and asserts that there is no state religion. More than 94 percent of ...

"to be made flesh again") in religion and philosophy refers to ... called gilgul, became popular in Medieval folk Judaism, and is found in much ...

is often accorded too much status, and folk mathematics not enough, due ... category:Philosophy and religion Category:philosophy 111680976 ...

| religion =Presbyterianism | signature =Hoover ... from jails and police traps), were de facto folk heroes whose exploits frequently ...

the same name and may have derived from a folk story.Schoenbaum, 166. Like ... == Shakespeare and religion == Shakespeare's writings have achieved ...

In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ... of Somalis, along with certain other island folk in the Mediterranean, still ...

economic writing implied or directly addressed religion. ... The essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived ...

of a visual vocabulary borrowed from French folk art. Several illustrations ... some language relating to sexuality and religion. An edition restoring these ...

limited involvement with organized religion during his youth, but like ... "the center place" in which the religion would thrive ...

Mappillapattu. Mappillapattu is a genre of folk singing popular among the ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 73289917 ...

authority to legislate in matters of religion by denying the authority ... reputation among the people of London as a folk hero. Roman Catholic ...

as trying to convert a Muslim to another religion. Amnesty International notes ... and private businesses. Politics and religion are considered male domains. ...

during which time Taiwanese culture and religion were outlawed and the citizens ... China protects people's freedom of religion and the practices of belief. ...

administration, and the practice of folk medicine. Consequently, the ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:religion 86654827|Credit|168969880 ...

speaking lands and became the dominant religion. But the Lao retain many ... The predominant religion is Theravada Buddhism. There are also animist ...

a strong belief in, and practice of, both religion and family. The bonds of ... Manila area by 1565. Animism remained the religion of the majority of the Philippine ...

thereby making it the official religion. As Islam made its appearance ... and adopted as the "rightful" religion. Thus, the empire was genealogically ...

of Christianity, and 16 percent listed no religion. The 2001 census contained ... Aboriginal people developed unique instruments and folk styles. The ...

activists and reformers, and by the folk singer and researcher on folklore and Chilean ethnography Margot Loyola. Chileans call their country ...

bikutsi. Makossa developed in Douala and mixes folk music, high life, soul, and Congo music. Performers such as Manu Dibango, Francis Bebey, Moni Bilé ...

manifesto against the church and religion. Goethe's contributions ... Goethe was also a cultural force, and by researching folk traditions ...

Radical individualism, libertarianism, religion, the relationship between ... by Charles Manson appears to be an urban folk tale; although some of Manson ...

Secretary of State. He mostly spoke about religion but covered a wide variety ... insistence on the wisdom of ordinary folk, a faith-based insistence ...

where over time Judaism became the state religion. At their height, they and ... The country converted to the Sunni Muslim religion between the sixteenth ...

usually backed by live Irish, Acadian, or other folk music. In some towns of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, Portuguese music is preserved ...

of social organizations, and freedom of religion. Freedom in the World 2019: ... the right to a fair trial, freedom of religion, universal suffrage, and ...

role in politics, economics, and religion throughout Western Africa ... who will often call themselves "Romany Folk." They are thought to ...

Switzerland has no country-wide state religion, though most of the ... Christianity is the predominant religion of Switzerland, divided between ...

horse and camel dances, tent pegging, colorful folk dances, and mass-band displays. Independence Day is celebrated on August 14. Parades of the ...

quot; (attiba) wielded great power over the common folk. According to ibn Rustah, these shamans acted "as if they own everything." They determined ...

of the Tokugawa shogunate, organized religion played a much less important ... religious use - Buddhist, Shintō, and folk - have been preserved in the ...

province. Today he is considered more a folk hero. Whether seen as a Father ... André cautioned Riel against mixing religion and politics. Also, in response ...

Later, the work of one of these NGOs, marshaling the power of religion ... from imported popular music to traditional folk songs. The guitar is the most ...

collection of natural history and Malayan folk-lore. He was also a Fellow ... He also noted the rise of the Sikh religion in certain parts of Sumatra. ...

such as the "sun wheel" of Bronze Age religion. ... In Finland the swastika was often used in traditional folk art products ...

[http://www.everyculture.com/Europe/Transylvanian-Ethnic-Groups-Religion ... * Hungarian traditions and folk culture * The cafe culture, street ...

=== Religion === Oklahoma is part of a geographical region characterized ... Association of Religion Data Archives [http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/r ...

of their belief, or the promises of their religion, that they will go to heaven ... clothed in some sort of spiritual body? All folk beliefs in the afterlife describe ...

The French Wars of Religion, (1562 to 1598) were a series of conflicts ... starting the first of the French Wars of Religion, during which English, German ...

While the European folk traditions connected with Saint Valentine ... * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/saints/valentine ...

in the face of the spread of the new religion. Irish Christian scholars ... would introduce English law and the Protestant religion. ...

Tributes and memorial to Count Bernadotte include the Folk Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, the Bernadotte ...

and the Dead Sea. Jordan's principal religion is Islam, and its main language ... In 324 C.E., Christianity became the religion of the Byzantine Empire ...

feudal lords, and establishment religion." Alireza Asgharzadeh ... where classical Turkish music merges with folk music. The first opera in ...

Croatia has no official religion. Freedom of religion is a constitutional ... families. People of the same nationality, religion, educational level, and ...

who practice the Theravadan form of the religion, are mostly concentrated ... There is pop, religious, classical, and folk music. Since the 1960s ...

Achilles: Questions of Etymology and 'Folk Etymology." Illinois ... Category:Philosophy and religion 165887461 ...

William Penn had declared freedom of religion, and welcomed immigrants ... conscientious objector status; their own folk-history contains tales of ...

is home to an array of performers, folk, classical and pop, as well as rock, hip hop and other genres. The national anthem is "Ons Hémécht ...

is only one science, to which race and religion are irrelevant. ... *Boas, Franz. 1979. Folk Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes. Periodicals ...

Duel.” Although this duel is part of folk history, several scholars ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Art, music, literature, sports ...

Spain's present languages, its religion, and the basis of its laws ... and Jews were free to practice their religion, but faced certain restrictions ...

had been assimilated. The Canaanite religion itself was based on the ... #039;s loyalty is usually with his or her religion, although marriage between ...

is raï, a pop-flavored, opinionated take on folk music, featuring international stars such as Khaled and Cheb Mami. However, in Algeria itself ...

within the tradition of African-American folk preaching, and should not ... *A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's ...

of China where Tibetan Buddhism is the predominant religion. ... known as the original culture of the Bön religion. According to Annals of ...

Popular cultural events include the National Folk Festival (Australia), the Royal Canberra Show, the Summernats car festival and the Celebrate Canberra ...

rights; restrictions of freedom of religion; corruption and lack of ... === Religion === Muslims make up 97 percent of the population, the ...

known as "Friar's Heel." A folk tale, which cannot be dated ... differences between the Iron Age Druidic religion, the much older monument ...

medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas ... proved compatible with the new Christian religion. Christianity embraced the ...

focusing on the synthesis of culture and religion, brought together an eclectic ... forwarded letters, each combining stylized folk poetic messages with small ...

as in Mainland China, practice a folk version of Buddhism. This majority includes approximately six million people, close to 90 percent of a ...

monuments. From around 2300 B.C.E., Beaker folk, who buried their dead in ... The most famous body of English folk-tales concerns the legends of ...

1918 The Killing of the Khazar Kings Folk-Lore 29(3) (September 30, 1918), 238-247. Georgevitch suggests that this legend may have originated ...

a Slavic variant of the Eastern Orthodox religion, dramatically deepening ... of Marxist theory. It opposed organized religion, especially in order to ...

the Catholic Irish to the Protestant religion and the brutal methods used ... Ireland. Christianity is the predominant religion, and Ireland is predominantly ...

the role of Serena in George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess and performed in it more than eight hundred times. *Max Martin Fisher—an ...

century, when it became the empire's official religion. ... and defined Jews by race instead of religion. This definition altered ...

their Greek identity, Orthodox Christian religion and independence, chose ... resisting Turkish rule, exemplified by the folk hero Daskalogiannis who was ...

|religion = Daoism, Chinese folk religion }} Zhang Heng ( t=張衡|s=张衡|p=Zhāng Héng|w=Chang Heng ) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath ...

Groundswell, the Philharmonic Choir and the Folk Festival also present music. There are over a dozen theater companies. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet ...

There is a strong correlation between ethnic identity and religion ... From the Ottoman era comes sevdalinka. It is a kind of emotional folk ...

pantheon (such as in ancient Vedic and Greco-Roman religion). ... 13:14). However, for the monotheistic religion of Christianity, the Father ...

as the nation's new official religion, to which the bulk of the ... only the common bonds of language, race, religion and tradition. ...

or "Potato War" among common folk. Even after the end of the ... The Grimm, also assembled a compendium of folk tales and fables, which highlighted ...

different kinds of ephemera and popular or folk literature were published ... cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth ...

People whose value system is rooted in religion continue to see homosexual ... experiences and influences; Adoption; Religion. ==Treatment== ...

| religion = | notableworks= One Thousand Souls (1858)A Bitter Fate ... and Dostoevsky's early novel Poor Folk as a literary effort to critique ...

An analysis of fertility differentials by religion in Kerala: A test of the ... instruments. Kerala has various styles of folk and tribal music, the most ...

at the end of the nineteenth century out of folk and Evangelical Lutheran Church ... Nationalism had become a "civic religion" among the Finns by ...

public affairs; he placed faith in local folk religion. He was popularly known as "El Jefe" ("The Chief") or "El Benefactor ...

to adhere to both Shinto (the indigenous religion of Japan) and Buddhism. ... the formation of Japanese civilization. Religion in Japan tends to be syncretic ...

began to include references to God and religion in his entries.Rarick, 145 ... that has been transformed into a major folk epic."State of California, 39. ...

been allowed to live and practice their religion freely in Britain for 350 ... bullets: at stake was Indian culture and religion, in the face of the steady ...

the Morea (14th century), and is common in folk songs, but it must have originated ... Thessalonica made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. ...

moderate success, to synthesize realism with folk art in an attempt to realign art with the mass origins of the Chinese people. By the 1970s many artists ...