There are a couple of critical issues when it comes to the study of what a religious tradition says. The first is to make a distinction between the oral tradition and the written tradition. Many well-developed‚ world religions have an established canon of sacred texts‚ as well as an oral tradition. In some cases‚ this also has come to be written down. For instance‚ in Judaism‚ there is the tradition of the Oral Torah and the written Torah. The written Torah has become the Tanakh or the Hebrew
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Story telling has been used as a staple for human development. Oral storytelling traditions varies from place to place‚ and has lessons to share with everyone. For centuries‚ stories have been used to guide people with advice through the main point of a story. They can tell about one person’s experience in certain situation. The tradition of oral storytelling is used to inform a community of member’s unique experiences in certain situations. “Storytelling that’s verbally expressed can be counted
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In this article the writer tries to clearly define the term tradition in relation to how we perceive it in the modern world. He says traditions are nothing but customs that have been done by generations before us and were passed on to us and we will eventually pass them to the future generations. The writer in specific talks about the Easter traditions. In the Easter traditions it is the norm to have bunny eggs as a highlight of this celebration. “What would an Easter without bunny eggs be?” he further
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LITTLE TRADITION The issue of great and little traditions did not arise for the first generation of anthropologists who‚ following the example of *Malinowski‚ mainly studied remote‚ self-contained‚ small-scale societies. It was only after World War II‚ when anthropologists began to study communities integrated within larger states and participating in centuries-old religious traditions such as *Buddhism or *Christianity‚ that the problem arose. The terms ‘great’ and ‘little’ traditions were actually
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of the Romans”. But there are also Hungarians‚ Germans‚ Serbs‚ Tartars‚ and Russians who make up the rest of the population. The official language is Romanian‚ the only language of Latin origin in Eastern Europe. Brought up to respect religious traditions‚ the majority of Romanians is Orthodox (nearly 87 percent). Protestants are the next largest denomination at 6.8 percent with Catholics making up 5.6 percent of the population. A small number of Muslims also live in Romania. Romanian Orthodox
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Most all religions around the world contain a plethora of myths and narratives. Judaism‚ too‚ contains numerous stories and myths that are considered very important to the Jewish tradition. However‚ there is one story‚ the Exodus‚ which can be considered the "orienting myth" both in narrative‚ as defined by Mircea Eliade‚ as well as historically. To understand the Exodus as an "orienting myth" we must first asses what is meant by the term myth. According to Myth and Reality‚ by Mircea Eliade‚
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For example‚ Christmas caroling has originated from the pagan tradition of wassailing. During wassailing‚ people went from door to door singing and drinking wishing hope to their neighbors. Caroling also has stemmed from when villagers would adventure though their fields shouting and singing to scare off the malicious
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selfishness through a mankind behavior. In the other hand‚ P.W. Alexander‚ a writer and a teacher who oftentimes dedicated to community services‚ her article Christmas at Home‚ she talks about her own personal heartwarming life story and how her family tradition on holidays of acts of altruism have impacted her life and career. Each piece was based off of act of altruism but the intense logics between the two authors are slightly different than one another. By logic‚ Altruism Behavior written by Desmond
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Tradition makes up the very fabric of society. It helps establish the social norms of what is accepted and what is not. Tradition affects everyone within the society as early as childhood. It helps individuals establish they principles and their values. The outlook in life that every individual has is heavily affected by their traditions. Traditions influences everything such as religion‚ language‚ lifestyle‚ food‚ art and culture. Tradition is a fundamental factor for an individual because it helps
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The topic tradition and modernization is very important topic in the fast changing modern world where every person faces contradiction between his traditional culture and modernization. Modern thoughts‚ life style‚ working culture‚ clothing etc. all integrated part of modernization. Though there are some conflict in the traditional way and modernized way of doing things‚ but these two means different leads to the same results. let us understand what is tradition First and modernization? As mentioned
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