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Fri 11 Mar, 2011 07:54 am
"- including the Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Zoroastrian, indigenous, and goddess approaches to spirituality."
What does indigenous mean? Local religion?
What is the goddess approaches to spiritualit?
@Justin Xu,
Indigenous means "of or pertaining to original inhabitants of a particular place."
Without more context, goddess approaches to spirituality might refer to the pagan goddess religions.
@Justin Xu,
Joseph Campbell cites Spengler in defining 8 monads, civilizations with similar religious bases; 1) Sumerian-Babylonian 2) Greco-Roman 3) Egyptian 4) Incan-Mayan-Aztecan 5) Vedic-Indian 6) Chinese 7) Zoroastrian-Judeo-Christian-Muslim 8)Faustian, the present.
@coluber2001,
Quote:What does indigenous mean? Local religion?
Look up the "dreamtime".
Dreamtime is a cultural tradition of Indigenouse Australians.