RELIGION / Indigenous / Ceremony & Spiritual Practice

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change have become urgent global challenges, prompting renewed attention to the role of cultural and religious frameworks in shaping sustainable human–nature relationships. The study examined Wana Kerthi, a Balinese Hindu principle of forest preservation, as an indigenous eco-theology integrating religious devotion, environmental ethics, and social solidarity…

Book · DOAB

In the Brazilian religion Umbanda - which formed in the state of Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of African, indigenous and European religions - communication with spirit beings is central, recalling Brazilian history. Since the 1940s, it has spread worldwide and, from about 2010, also settled in German-speaking Europe in the course of transatlantic sacred globalization. Nevertheless…

Image · DPLA

Spring 2006 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University