Sentences with phrase «hawaiian religious culture»

John Charlot observes in Chanting the Universe: Hawaiian Religious Culture that sacred chants were traditionally practiced on the beach so as to reproduce the modulations of wind and waves.

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Whether it involves a memorial in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a victim of the Trail of Tears, the Hawaiian tradition of pono (righteousness and balance), California New Age groups borrowing Indian rituals or New Mexico tribes arguing for the return of their sacred sites, the story of regional religious culture has to acknowledge these rich (and often contentious) roots.

In 2004, Winter was a master's degree student in botany at the University of Hawaii, focused mostly on Hawaiian «Awa (Piper methysticum), a plant used to make a drink consumed for medicinal, religious, and social reasons across Pacific cultures.