Veneration of the dead

a supreme deity, named Bondye (Radford), followed by a multitude of smaller deities that are in charge of their own section of the universe, these beings are called Loa (Vodun). During worship ceremonies to specific deities, it is believed that the dead walk amongst the living in celebratory dances.There is also the belief that a person 's soul may leave a body and/or re-enter a body and that being possessed by other spirits is not entirely uncommon (Origins). Another important factor of West…

In the times that Frankenstein is written, exploration and application of science is exploding along with developments in all aspects in Industrial Revolution. One dramatic event in scientific community at that time is the famous “vitalist debate” engaged by two medical professionals John Abernethy advocating vitalism and William Lawrence propagating materialism. Critics constantly assume what standpoint in the debate is Shelley taking by analyzing her main character “the Creature” in…

This is seen through how both treat on Polyneices a family member of both Antigone and Creon. Antigone feels the need to give her brother a proper burial whether it costs her her life Antigone, moved by veneration for her kin and influenced of the injustice of the charge, which she acknowledges harms divine law, covers his body quietly. “Nor did Justice, which lives with those below, enact such laws as that, for mankind. I did not believe your proclamation…

Buddha has a god in all his many incarnations. When people think about Moksha, the word Moksha believes that several gods are important to the object of admiration, or even seen as a vision of the supreme God, whereas there are never objects of veneration or pray in Buddhism. What was interesting about this topic is how nirvana reaches enlightenment. Enlightenment is a state of perfect knowledge or wisdom. With this enlightenment, it cannot be understood or attained through conceptual…

Buddhist Ideology and Death Rituals in China Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in the world and includes extensive and internally diverse traditions with two main branches. This paper will focus on the Mahayana branch of Buddhism commonly practiced in China. Buddhist views on death and specific death rituals of Mahayana Buddhism in China will be explored. Two individual sects of Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism native to China will be offered to contrast different paths to…

I. Origin and History Santería is an Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion that originated in the Yoruba tribe of West Africa. The development of Santería is the result of the African Diaspora. The Yoruba tribe was brought to Cuba because of the slave trade in approximately the 16th century. Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean mixed their Yoruba beliefs with the Roman Catholic beliefs of the Spanish. Although on the surface they were forced by their masters to convert to Catholicism, many still…

Dalit oppression, and the reverse mechanism of socio-political and religious upheavals against such tendencies have long been part of the Indian set up. Mass conversions to Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, in the sub-continent, as documented in history, speaks volumes of the denial of basic human rights to the Dalits or the Untouchables by the caste Hindus. These conversions in no way guaranteed the allocation of rights to the Dalits, who continued to suffer under the yoke of overbearing Hindu…

sexual practices. And all of the money that is raised is always offered to the god. A more modern belief behind the painting is that the death and resurrection of Adonis is simply a personification for the cycle of the seasons. Death being the cold and dead winter, while the resurrection…

Buddhism and Confucianism. Some Taoists freely adopted some of the practices in Buddhism and Confucianism; the three philosophies and religions share some of the same practices, for example, ancestor worship. Ancestor worship, also known as veneration of the dead, is a form of ritual practice by many Chinese people. This ritual is also embraced in Africa, Egypt, and Rome; in such countries, ancestor worship is held differently due to the different cultural backgrounds, however, the main idea of…

hold conversations with believers as well as heal those who are ill. The kut ritual is ultimately a social event as well as a communal therapy session that allows members of the community to be both purified and make contact with the spirits of their dead family members. In his book Korean Shamanist Ritual: Symbols and Dramas of Transformation, author Daniel Kister calls the intersection of these three aspects of kut the “threefold transformational thrust of all kut ritual toward contact with…