Download or read book The Life After Death in Oceania and the Malay Archipelago written by Rosalind Louisa Beaufort Moss and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the annual report of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
Download or read book The Religions of Oceania written by Garry Trompf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone. The book also deals with indigenous Christianity and its wide influence across the region, and includes new religious movements generated by the responses of indigenous peoples to colonists and missionaries, the best known of these being the `Cargo Cults' of Melanesia. The authors present a thorough and accessible examination of the fascinating diversity of religious practices in the area, analysing new religious developments, and provideing clear interpretative tools and a mine of information to help the student better understand the world's most complex ethnologic tapestry.
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With appendices.
Download or read book The Malay Magician written by R. O. Winstedt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, The Malay Magician employs historical and comparative data to unravel the different elements – pagan, Hindu and Muslim – in a complex system of Malay magic, as it exists in the Federation of Malay in general and more specifically as it exists in the Malay States of Kelantan, Perak, Pahang, Selangor and Negri Sembilan. Tied up with the concept of magic is the Malay magician, whose many functions and roles in the society are discussed in detail. This book will be of interest to students of anthropology, sociology, history and cultural studies.
Download or read book American Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Church Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Church Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Download or read book Near Death Experience in Indigenous Religions written by Gregory Shushan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near-death experiences are known around the world and throughout human history. They are sometimes reported by individuals who have revived from a period of clinical death or near-death and they typically feature sensations of leaving the body, entering and emerging from darkness, meeting deceased friends and relatives, encountering beings of light, judgment of one's earthly life, feelings of oneness, and reaching barriers, only to return to the body. Those who have NDEs almost invariably understand them as having profound spiritual or religious significance. In this book, Gregory Shushan explores the relationship between NDEs, shamanism, and beliefs about the afterlife in traditional indigenous societies in Africa, North America, and Oceania. Drawing on historical accounts of the earliest encounters with explorers, missionaries, and ethnologists, this study addresses questions such as: Do ideas about the afterlife commonly originate in NDEs? What role does culture play in how people experience and interpret NDEs? How can we account for cross-cultural similarities and differences between afterlife beliefs? Though NDEs are universal, Shushan shows that how they are actually experienced and interpreted varies by region and culture. In North America, they were commonly valorized, and attempts were made to replicate them through shamanic rituals. In Africa, however, they were largely considered aberrational events with links to possession or sorcery. In Oceania, Micronesia corresponded more to the African model, while Australia had a greater focus on afterlife journey shamanism, and Polynesia and Melanesia showed an almost casual acceptance of the phenomenon as reflected in numerous myths, legends, and historical accounts. This study examines the continuum of similarities and differences between NDEs, shamanism, and afterlife beliefs in dozens of cultures throughout these regions. In the process, it makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge about the origins of afterlife beliefs around the world and the significance of related experiences in human history.
Download or read book Society and Nature written by Hans Kelsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998.This is Volume XIV of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. This text is concerned with sociological inquiry into society and nature. Written in 1946, it investigates the idea that society and nature, if conceived of as two different systems of elements, are the results of two different methods of thinking and are only as such two different objects. The same elements, connected with each other according to the principle of causality, constitute nature; connected with each other according to another, namely, a normative, principle, they constitute society
Download or read book The Theosophist written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shamanism written by Mircea Eliade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.
Download or read book The Periodical written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Review of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
