Sentences with phrase «native spiritual traditions»

Don mentioned that he had met with a priest who had asked about native spiritual traditions and how they might be recovered.

The same slave owners evangelized the slaves into Christian moral codes and dogmas that insisted slaves renounce their native spiritual traditions.

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Many Native American wisdom traditions use the Medicine Wheel as part of their spiritual practice to stay connected to the cycles of the natural world.

Natalie Brown: While earning my Master's degree in Native American Studies at Montana State, I spent two years learning a little about Native American history, spiritual traditions, federal law and policy, and contemporary issues like poverty and sovereignty.

Merging the spiritual traditions of their native Africa with those of the indigenous populations and some Christian elements, they created their own festival and pageant traditions, an idiosyncratic mix of shared and imported identities and memories.

My work is inspired by my dreams and mystical experiences and informed by metaphysics and spiritual traditions across African, African diasporic, Native American, and other cultures.»

Despite such rough, utterly profane surfaces, it is a spiritual tradition of abstraction that Martin's work draws from: Native American folklore, religious mysticism, anthroposophist symbolism, the landscape painting of North American romanticism — and the great melting pot of New York City itself, where Martin has lived since 1975.

Traditionally, katsina dolls, essential to Hopi and Zuni Native American traditions, serve as messengers between the earthly and spiritual realms, often imparting moral lessons to young children.