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Turkish culture in peripheral spheres of life while retaining the elements of Polish culture in central spheres. The sixth or seventh generation descended from the 19th century Polish refugees living in Polonezkoy – Polish enclave near Istanbul showed a similar tendency: a clearly marked separation
of death, is motivated by the fear of the loss of power. This loss is a direct result of the loss of contact with, and recognition by, the living. An ancestor's name and remembrance by by the living is his hold on life and continued existence. In this paper I hope to show that the Sisala cosmology
framework to talk about “Living Religious Life on a Broad Canvas: Vatican II and Sister Mary Alban”. Sister Mary was one of the newly highly educated women religious who came of age after Vatican II , embracing the possibilities Vatican II offered for personhood in studying at the University of Toronto
as retributive agencies to punish moral wrongdoing among living descendants or community members. A second group of spiritual beings responsi- ble for misfortune, however, is not essentially motivated by legitimate moral considerations. We might term these 'malicious' spirits or spiritual beings
Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Africa 38 (2008) 343-347 345 Pritchett, James A., Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu , Charlottesville and London, University of Virginia Press, 2007, 266 pp., 978 0 8139 2624 7, $49.50/£31.95 (hard cover
address social and environmental problems. 3 The Problem Human activities are causing severe environmental damage at an alarming rate. Humanity is on a destructive path that, without rapid efforts to halt it, threatens life on earth. The major problem is that despite the availability of
not only motivated by the desire to achieve a higher degree of learning and piety; it was also a Hijra to insure a life in conformity with Islamic principles. Ahmed argues that although colonial rule played a significant role in the move to the Hijaz—where, in the end, these scholars found community
of culturally accepted criteria of success. Second, it puts the dead within historical consciousness as a reflexive object. Therefore, an elaborate, expensive, and widely-known burial enriches the status of the living who can benefit from the publicity in the construction of their own life courses. A
suffers a violent attack. The incident makes him realize that he is living a dangerous life. In retrospect, he considers his former life dangerous because of two reasons. First is the high susceptibility to violence and other dangers. Here Robert also points at the risk of HIV infection: ‘My involvement
. ‘We gave birth to this young person ( kijana ). Now he has gone to town, he has left us here. He does not come to see us. He is living a good life in town, he works, he gets money, but he has forgotten us’. Your parents are sad. Maybe your mother says: ‘I wish I had never given birth to him’. So that