Blog POST 5

For this post I am going to compare and contrast the three cultures that I chose, which were Yuruba, Uzbeks and Tiwi to the topic that I chose to focus on  which was Religious Practices. For the last three posts that I talked about these three different cultures I didn't only focus on religion, but I also touched a little bit about their cultures and how they live. When it comes to Yoruba and their religion they believe in pantheon religi0n before the introdcution of Christianity and Islam. They practice an extensive system of cults and rituals which explains predictions of mystical powers. Another thing that I have seen was how sacrifices were the core of their worship in traditional religion.  When it comes to Uzbeks, the Soviet Union introduced to them what they called western biomedicine which was on the other hand used for condemnation of indigenous religious-based healing and even said that they are dangerous. After the independence from the Soviet Union the interest in local traditional and religious healing practices inside Uzbeks has increased. majority of Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims, they observe muslim holidays, funerals and they believe there will be a judgment day for all human beings.

For my last post I talked about Tiwi, Tiwi don't have specialist religious practitioners instead each person uses culturally transmitted religious knowledge to communicate with the spiritual world by participating in burials and community rituals. Religion plays minimum role in their daily life. The Tiwi people didn't accommodate christanity, but the church converted in embracing them. When it comes to my own culture, the majority of them are Sunni Muslims and they have a lot of similarities with the Uzbeks. except that they did practice their religion freely unlike the Uzbeks. 

 Citations

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/World-religions.PNG

RADEMAKER, LAURA. 2019. “Going Native: Converting Narratives in Tiwi Histories of Twentieth-Century Missions.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 70 (1). Cambridge University Press: 98–118. doi:10.1017/S002204691800064

Fathi, Habiba. 2006. “Gender, Islam, and Social Change in Uzbekistan.” Central Asian Survey 25 (3): 303–17. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ant&AN=XRAI2000s-65705&site=ehost-live.

Barnes, Sandra T. 2009. “Culture Summary: Yoruba.” New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files. https://ehrafworldcultures-yale-edu.northernkentuckyuniversity.idm.oclc.org/document?id=ff62-000.