SRS 1110 Chapter Notes - Chapter .: Tropical Year, Yolngu

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovich

Document Summary

Rituals and calendar"s in modern world religions: many other examples from modern world religions of the importance of time and calendars. Periodic rituals - rituals are performed according to a temporal cycle: anniversary of important events in history. Totemism - to understand religious systems of the australian aborigines which are focus on expressions of sacred time and space. Totem that of a symbol or emblem of a social unit: a special group exists between a group or individual and its totem which id frequently, but not always, an animal.