Category Archives: Religion

Life and art in the sky, Part 3 – more thoughts on Aboriginal astronomy

September 5, 2009 – 4:59 pm

It may just be because 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, but to me there seems to be a greater willingness to engage or a broader interest in Indigenous Astronomical Knowledge among the mainstream astronomical science community than there is in many other scientific disciplines.

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Roadside memorials and “new ways of grief and mourning”

July 11, 2009 – 12:05 am

“The roadside memorial is particularly important because it indicates to us that there is a new way looking at grief and mourning.” Jennifer Clark, UNE.

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El Ritual del Hombre-Pajaro – the bird-man cult of Rapa Nui

May 19, 2009 – 8:11 am

The successful man would be declared Tangata-Manu, would take the egg in his hand and lead a procession back to his homeland. Once in residence there he was tapu (taboo) for the next five months of his year long status, and allowed his nails to grow and wore a headdress of human hair.

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Mississippi Delta rural churches

April 14, 2009 – 12:07 pm

The Delta has a rich religious heritage, and is a land where faith- in God, in the future, in grace, and in ultimate redemption – unify all people. Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches are commonly represented in Delta towns.

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Margaret’s Grocery and Market, Vicksburg, Mississippi

April 9, 2009 – 1:06 am

Margarets has been a work in progress over many years by the Reverend H. D. Dennis who was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1916. The min building has a long verandah fronted by a scattering of signs and sculptures across the front of the block. To one side is a jumbled and half-built, half-wrecked and slowly collapsing tower and an old bus which served, or may still serve, as a Chapel from which the good Reverend H D Dennis preaches.

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East African Notes & Records – the Pangolin in East African local knowledge

April 6, 2009 – 2:06 am

In this paper on the local knowledge and belief systems about the Pangolin in Tanzania in east Africa Martin Walsh of Canbridge University in the UK discusses the role that Pangolin sightings and behaviour have in local environmental and political events

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