01:840:112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Religion In Africa, Spiritualism, Human Beings In Buddhism
6 Nov 2018
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Northern half tends to be more muslim. Hold together philosophically disparate beliefs because of the tie to culture. Major religions but most keep aspects of folk religions: time, sasa - present, here and now. Today, near future, recent past: zamani - distant. As we add more time, past is growing (as people die, they become part of the past) All that is and all that has been (doesn"t include future as much) Sasa is included in zamani: will join everyone that has been rather than a future realm. If death comes too soon, it is unnatural. If you die young, you"ve made a spirit mad (natural death = live as long as you possibly can: memory. As long as you remember someone who has died, they are with you in. Bigger impact: ancestral world, not its own realm or place, more like a state of being, no heaven/hell or punishment.
