and its only indigenous religion, Taoism. The government has also endorsed folk religious practices that it once deemed superstitious, subsidizing pilgrimages and temples. Driving these seemingly ...

Some Hispanics also incorporate indigenous or Afro-Caribbean practices into their religious experiences, such as seeking help from someone with special powers to heal the sick, using incense or herbs ...

While many of these cultural facets survive among today’s Indigenous Peoples, certain aspects of these are retained in ethnic groups that have embraced Roman Catholicism, the religion introduced ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — The events highlighted the cultural, as well as the religious, importance of Our ... with mariachi music and traditional Mexican folk dance, followed the next morning by a ...

Buddhist temples and statues were destroyed, and Buddhist monks were forced to return to lay lives. As with Taoism and folk religion in China, assessing the size of the Buddhist population is ...