Ancestor Worship in South Asia and Southeast Asia
Ancestor worship or ancestor veneration is among the world’s oldest religious practices. Ancestor worship is based on the belief that the deceased continue to have an active interest in the daily...
View ArticleMRFF Saves Halloween Twice for the Children on One Military Base
Second only to Christmas, Halloween is the holiday for which service members contact the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) about issues of their command forcing fundamentalist Christian...
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Indians 101: A brief overview of Northern Plains Indian spirituality
The Northern Plains include what is now North and South Dakota, Eastern Montana, northeastern Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This was an area which was the traditional...
View ArticleAncient Egypt: Polytheism
Religion in ancient Egypt, as in other ancient civilizations, was based on a number of deities, both male and female, who were supported by rituals. Some of these deities were associated with and lived...
View ArticleIndians 101: The Northern Plains Vision Quest
The importance of individuality and individual personal experience in the spirituality of the Northern Plains is seen in the vision quest, a personal ceremony in which individuals seek dreams or...
View ArticleCherokee Spirituality
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View ArticleIndians 101: A brief overview of traditional Pawnee spirituality
The Pawnee, a Caddo-speaking agricultural people, were living in the Arkansas River region of northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas at the time of first European contact. Briefly described below are...
View ArticleReligion and Spirituality
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View ArticleCreation Stories
Religion, in many traditions, helps to explain the unknown, that which has not been personally experienced. One these unknowns is how everything began, how humans first came into existence: in other...
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Indians 101: Everyday life among Washington Indians (museum tour)
One display in the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma is called The Richness of Everyday Life.Shown above is a saddle cover used by the Plateau peoples. This dates to about 1900.Shown above is a...
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Hallucinogenic substances and shamanism
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View ArticleThe supernatural
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View ArticleReligious Freedom Day is On the Way!
For the past few years, the Religious Freedom Day group here at Daily Kos has sponsored a blogathon in the run up to and including Religious Freedom Day, January 16th. We hope you will join us to...
View ArticleThe Crucible of Religious Freedom in Our Time
This is part of an annual series of posts here on Daily Kos in the run up to and on Religious Freedom Day. So far, there have been at least two (here and here) and I expect there will be more. The Day...
View ArticleIndians 101: American Indian religions 100 years ago, 1920
Since the founding of the United States, there had been an assumption that American Indians should abandon their religions and become Christians. By 1920, Indian religions were still illegal but, in...
View ArticlePilgrimage
In many religious traditions there are rituals of pilgrimage in which people may travel to distant places to establish and reinforce ties to the sacred; to obtain physical, emotional, and spiritual...
View ArticleShawnee spirituality
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View ArticleIndians 201: Neolin, the Delaware Prophet
The Lenni Lenape, whose language belongs to the Algonquian language family, occupied lands in what would become New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware at the beginning of the European...
View ArticleIndians 101: American Indian religions 150 years ago, 1870
As a Christian nation, the United States has had little tolerance for religious diversity, particularly with regard to American Indian religions. The policies of the United States have sought to make...
View ArticleReligion 101: Sacred fire
One of the major events in human evolution was the domestication of fire--the ability to not only control fire, but to make it was well. Using fire to cook food changed the human diet which in turn...
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