The sand painting has been used for centuries in Navajo religious rituals, including healing ceremonies performed by Navajo medicine men.

ABSTRACT. The sociology of religion has, by and large, treated religious experiences as personal, having in themselves little social relevance. To this line of thought, experiences ...

Begun nearly a decade ago in conjunction with a course on New Religious Movements that Prof. Jeffrey K. Hadden had taught at the University of Virginia for more than twenty years ...

This essay presents a comparison of Zu?i and Navajo religious rituals, burial practices, and beliefs in an afterlife as revealed in Tony Hillerman's novel, Dance Hall of the Dead.

The idea behind Navajo religious rituals is that of a bargain: the petitioner has "given" some offering to the Ye'i and expects something in return.

Sandpainting has been used for centuries in Navajo religious rituals, including ceremonies for summoning forces to intercede and restore a patient's hozho, or ...

Spickard, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Redlands (CA), authored this paper titled "Experiencing Religious Rituals: A Schutzian Analysis of Navajo Ceremonies.

This is especially true of Spickard's (1991) attempt to apply Schutz's theory of a shared inner experience of time to traditional Navajo religious rituals.

Spickard, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Redlands (CA), authored this paper titled "Experiencing Religious Rituals: A Schutzian Analysis of Navajo Ceremonies.

... an incorporation of the Pueblo?s dry painting into the Navajo rituals. ... Navajo religious beliefs provide for about 500 different sandpaintings ...