Sentences with phrase «american death rituals»

Native American traditions and rituals may differ from tribe to tribe, but commonalities exist in Native American death rituals.

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ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

After the Civil War, a confluence of factors disrupted the established death rituals of American Christians.

I was always taught (and especially by Native Americans) that it had more to do with their immediate post birth rituals, in which the children have their nose pinched off and mouth covered every time they cry in order to teach them that crying means death.

Although this is a very American book, much of the material in Death to Dust is universally applicable, apart from the legal considerations and some of the more florid excesses of the transatlantic funeral rituals which make up the so - called «American way of death&raDeath to Dust is universally applicable, apart from the legal considerations and some of the more florid excesses of the transatlantic funeral rituals which make up the so - called «American way of death&radeath».

While humans had hunted the auk for millennia, with Native Americans including the skins and bones in their death rituals, excessive hunting for meat and feathers was too much for the population to bear.