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1. Climbing (or picnicking?) on Mt. Aragats
(Armenia)
... someone pronounced a well-wishing formula while others responded. The exchanges seemed to be made up of just clichés, but had the solemnity of religion or magic. I was partaking in a rite that was just ...
Created on 23 August 2015
2. Yaroslavl and Rostov Veliky
(Russia)
It was another night train, my seventh and last such trip, that took me to Yaroslavl. I was back on the Volga, but an autumnal coolness had swept over the limitless expanses of Russia. The shorts and t-shirts ...
Created on 28 August 2014
3. Enough of churches: to Kazan
(Russia)
... Lady of Kazan's icon. Religion came in to sanction and sanctify the military feat: the sacred image, not a mere pictorial representation anymore, but endowed with own divine life, was promoted to the rank ...
Created on 07 August 2014
4. Contended Silesia
(Poland)
Kłodzko was formerly called Glatz – and this is not just a learned detail, because this German name gives evidence to the region's history. The town, together with swathes of Silesia, was a dominion of ...
Created on 30 April 2014
5. Disappointing archaeology
(South Ethiopia)
... of stelae of different shapes and decorative patterns, it marks a stage in the country's history approximately 700 years ago when Christianity had not yet taken over pagan religions in the south. I had ...
Created on 09 February 2014
6. Melka Awash
(South Ethiopia)
... he asked me personal questions about religion. I was pretty sure he was Muslim, given that his name was Hussayn, so had a guess with the certainty of hitting the mark, but he smiled and said he used to ...
Created on 08 February 2014
7. Veneto weekend
(Outings)
... focused on the contradictions that religions bring about in the world. They may well preach love and understanding, but too many of their followers hate and harm those who stick to a different credo. At ...
Created on 29 September 2013
8. Xining, capital of Qinghai
(Xinjiang)
... by an old man with a white beard and lively eyes who is eager to instruct me about his religion, thinking probably that this is my first encounter with his strange world. He speaks Mandarin, but at least ...
Created on 07 August 2012
9. Reassuring traditions
(Diary)
... a piece of ourselves from its onslaught. The changing of the seasons falls conspicuously under everybody’s eyes as an example of recurrent cycle. It’s not by chance that religions have chosen astronomically ...
Created on 20 April 2012
10. The woes of our best principles
(Diary)
... privileges from being maintained or indeed sanctioned, sometimes entrusting their continuance to the sacred sphere of religion. Thus, things become more complicated when we attempt at establishing shared ...
Created on 03 April 2012
11. Fasting
(Diary)
... context is: God ordered it – or so clerics will say and believers chime in. But if we take a secular approach to the issue and from this angle try to explain religion itself, there are interesting lessons ...
Created on 22 March 2012
12. The Lake Tana monasteries
(Ethiopia)
... of the supernatural are not lacking in any world religion, here they literally abound. But what can you do, wherever you go, they are the average worshipper’s daily bread, the stuff that takes his mind ...
Created on 31 January 2012
13. Dogged unrepentant childlessness
(Diary)
... and less filtered though the rose-tinged glasses of religion have produced a reasoning that was borne out by personal observations. I call it a rational approach, and it’s probably nothing but a cynical ...
Created on 27 January 2012
14. The monk debate in Baiyu
(Sichuan)
... there is another religion in the world which does not strive to achieve the goals of peace and tolerance. I can feel there are bridges between us when I recognise the values that were also part of my education. ...
Created on 14 August 2011
15. The shanty town monastery
(Sichuan)
... one that’s already spinning it takes just a flick of your hand to keep it going round for a long time still. How well this represents religion: praying by oneself is not very engaging, but when a ceremony ...
Created on 12 August 2011
16. The egg race
(Outings)
... orange-throwing festival in Italy, human creativity has found a rich seam to mine. Carnival in the Christian world and Aashura’ in Shiite countries are other examples of festivals where religion intermingles ...
Created on 04 July 2011
17. Friday 17
(Diary)
... We are back to an era when many western people have turned away from mainstream religions to unquestionably embrace New Age nonsense. In present-day psychic and occult faires, people consult clairvoyants, ...
Created on 21 June 2011
18. L'industria della pesca
(Senegal)
... dalle male lingue. La componente mistica sufistica che smussa le rigidità dell'Islam più intransigente ha integrato elementi magici nella religione e tra le altre cose permette una convivenza pacifica ...
Created on 10 February 2011
19. Invito a pranzo
(Senegal)
... troneggiano due donne velate che discutono di religione in una lingua che neanche lei capisce. Cerco di reagire parlando un po', raccontando qualcosa, ma quando gli argomenti sono esauriti, non rimane ...
Created on 04 February 2011
20. Panorami di Shanghai
(Cina)
... religione, mentre io sono disperatamente proteso alla ricerca delle preziose testimonianze di cultura e di storia dell'umanità. Non può quindi nemmeno capire perché abbia viaggiato notti intere sui treni ...
Created on 26 August 2010
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