{"id":200,"date":"2021-01-27T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/part\/from-africa\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:24:57","slug":"from-africa","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/part\/from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 5: Tribal Traditions: Africa, Australia and the Americas"},"content":{"raw":"<a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/shrine-altar-figures.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2021\/03\/shrine-altar-figures-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pair of Esu figures\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/Anishinabe-thunderbird.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/Anishinabe-thunderbird-150x150.png\" alt=\"Thunderbird image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/128px-Inca_Sun.svg_.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/128px-Inca_Sun.svg_.png\" alt=\"Inca Sun (Sun of May)\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/SLNSW_799111_1_Death_or_Glory_Aboriginal_figures_fighting.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/SLNSW_799111_1_Death_or_Glory_Aboriginal_figures_fighting-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Death or Glory [Aboriginal figures fighting] Date circa 1860 s - 1901 at Library of New South Wales\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIt is really too big of a topic to try and discuss traditions of tribes in this textbook, as not only each continent, but each country, each tribe, and each ethnic group has a rich, diverse, and important story to tell.\u00a0 One can only apologize and say that this is a very traditional \"world religions\" book, and we have been looking at religious traditions that are global in nature, and which have a more formal organization to them.\r\n\r\nHowever, some attention to the kinds of traditions, rituals, beliefs and practices of our indigenous people across these specific four continents informs us as to how spirituality eventually emerged in those places.\r\n\r\nSo we are going to look at four traditions:\u00a0 the North American Anishinaabe\u00a0 (Ojibwe) from the Great Lakes area of the US and Canada, the South American Incas\/Quechuas primarily located along the western coast of South America, the Indigenous\/Aboriginal people of Australia, and the Yoruba people near and in <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 14pt\">Nigeria on the African continent.\u00a0 Each has a rich tradition of\u00a0 spirituality, of belief, and of ritual.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAccording to the Pluralism Project of Harvard University,\r\n<blockquote><em>One of the few common elements within\u00a0the diversity of Native traditions is the idea that all dimensions of social life are profoundly integrated. Instead of\u00a0\u201creligion,\u201d the broader term \u201clife-way\u201d is often used to describe the traditions of Native peoples.<\/em><\/blockquote>","rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/shrine-altar-figures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2021\/03\/shrine-altar-figures-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pair of Esu figures\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/Anishinabe-thunderbird.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/Anishinabe-thunderbird-150x150.png\" alt=\"Thunderbird image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/128px-Inca_Sun.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/128px-Inca_Sun.svg_.png\" alt=\"Inca Sun (Sun of May)\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/128px-Inca_Sun.svg_.png 128w, https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/128px-Inca_Sun.svg_-65x65.png 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mlpp.pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/910\/2021\/01\/SLNSW_799111_1_Death_or_Glory_Aboriginal_figures_fighting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/moby-dick\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/180\/2024\/05\/SLNSW_799111_1_Death_or_Glory_Aboriginal_figures_fighting-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Death or Glory [Aboriginal figures fighting] Date circa 1860 s - 1901 at Library of New South Wales\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is really too big of a topic to try and discuss traditions of tribes in this textbook, as not only each continent, but each country, each tribe, and each ethnic group has a rich, diverse, and important story to tell.\u00a0 One can only apologize and say that this is a very traditional &#8220;world religions&#8221; book, and we have been looking at religious traditions that are global in nature, and which have a more formal organization to them.<\/p>\n<p>However, some attention to the kinds of traditions, rituals, beliefs and practices of our indigenous people across these specific four continents informs us as to how spirituality eventually emerged in those places.<\/p>\n<p>So we are going to look at four traditions:\u00a0 the North American Anishinaabe\u00a0 (Ojibwe) from the Great Lakes area of the US and Canada, the South American Incas\/Quechuas primarily located along the western coast of South America, the Indigenous\/Aboriginal people of Australia, and the Yoruba people near and in <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 14pt\">Nigeria on the African continent.\u00a0 Each has a rich tradition of\u00a0 spirituality, of belief, and of ritual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Pluralism Project of Harvard University,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One of the few common elements within\u00a0the diversity of Native traditions is the idea that all dimensions of social life are profoundly integrated. Instead of\u00a0\u201creligion,\u201d the broader term \u201clife-way\u201d is often used to describe the traditions of Native peoples.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-200","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/200\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/understandingreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}