The Vatican Council II in its declaration Nostra aetate and several other documents expressed a distinctly positive attitude of the Church towards non-Christian religions. Three post-Council documents devetod to a dialogue ...

Ethnological and religiological studies point at a differentiation existing between the status of men and women, which follows from the cultural conditions, and not from the biological differences. A lot of researchers ...

Robert Hertz introduced in ethnology a term „double funeral”, which comprises both burial ritual (first funeral) and secondary funeral among the nonliterate people. The rituals of the first and secondary funerals among the ...

Among the African peoples an imporiant social and religious role is played by funeral rituals, which belong to so-called rites of passage associated with the change of status and social position of man. In the Konkomba ...

Robert Hertz created a term “double funeral”, which comprises both burial rituals and the rituals of the secondary funeral among the nonliterate peoples. Another French ethnologist Arnold van Gennep distinguished three ...

Among the elements of nature the Earth occupies a special place in the beliefs nad the cult of many peoples. The Earth is the basis of a number of hieropfanic manifestations which form a whole and constitute a living cosmic ...

The Earth occupies a special place in the beliefs and cult of the primitive people. The Earth is the foundation of life and the basis of a number of hierophanies. As a fertile mother and feeder it is held in respect and ...

Life is the greatest value in the tradional African culture. The care for life permeates all the activities of the African peoples and everything is subjected to it. Disease, infertility, drought and bad death are misfortunes ...