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Hauora is a Māori philosophy of health and well-being unique to New Zealand. [1] ... Other models of hauora have been designed. For example, in 1997, Lewis Moeau, ...
Jewish social movement that sought to create agricultural communities in America. [11] Shalam Colony: New Mexico John B. Newbrough Andrew Howland 1884 1901 A community in which members would live peaceful, vegetarian lifestyles, and where orphaned urban children were to be raised. Ruskin Colony: Tennessee Julius Wayland: 1894 1899
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
The site comprises three African-American churches that played a role in the civil rights movement, a political movement to abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States. The sites illustrate the struggle for non-violent social change.
As an example of the persecution Baha'is faced (then and now) in Iran, even an American diplomat was murdered in 1924 by a mob on suspicion of being a Baháʼí intervening in a local matter. [51] [52] In 1906 a government census reported through a scholar that there were 1280 Baháʼís in 24 places among 14 states. [53]
Rongoā (or Rongoā Māori) refers to the traditional Māori medicinal practices in New Zealand. [1] Rongoā was one of the Māori cultural practices targeted by the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, [2] until lifted by the Maori Welfare Act 1962. [3]
Examples and symbols of new religious movements: a Sioux Ghost dance, the USVA emblem for the Native American Church, the symbol for Theosophy, the Cross and Crown of Christian Science, a Pentecostal worship service and a statue of the LDS angel Moroni.
Americana artifacts are related to the history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States of America. Americana is any collection of materials and things concerning or characteristic of the United States or of the American people, and is representative or even stereotypical of American culture as a whole. [1] [2]