The court sucks the life out of religion. It is common to hear people calling on the gods to protect Taiwan during folk religious events, but one would only have heard calls for the gods to protect ...

Lopez, Jr. This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "three religions" of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes ...

While our parents with supple knees and raised arms fervently pray for us from their village dwellings, your everyday youth is finding it trendy to denounce religion and declare life a series of ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

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The subtitle of “The Long Lost Friend” goes on to describe the book as “a true and Christian set of instructions for everyone ...

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

as well as searching for surviving relics of the ancient pagan religion still present in the tales, legends, and customs of the Slavic folk. Their results can often be called sensational. So if you’ve ...

In its three-plus-hours running time, the film offers a sweeping survey of the genre of folk horror, touching on 200 films from all parts of the world. And even for those who are repelled by horror ...

Are witches real? Yes, they are “Witchcraft, as we see it often in horror films or supernatural TV series, that doesn't ...

the revolutionary groups, Sicarii and the Zealots and whatnot, who took their religious understanding ... Plain simple folk who presumably live their Jewish lives by following the ways that ...