Question

Describe two specific trends that today threaten the existence of indigenous religions.

Answer 1

The development of photography and sound recording has helped the recovery of native religious. The photography and sound recording help to preserve chants and other aspects of life so keeping the religion alive is in something concrete.

•The ecological movement has also brought about a renewed interest in indigenous religion. Environmentalist David Suzuki argues that we must look at native people in order to better understand the relationship between humans and nature.- for example, art, and music and that everything is interconnected.

Often indigenous religions are thought of as holistic, what does it mean to be a holistic culture?

.A holistic culture is defined as a culture that attaches a religious meaning to everything from objects to actions. Because everything in these cultures is so inseparable, it is hard to say what is distinctly religious.

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