Religious Experience Topics

HUM1020 Religious Experience: 

These videos do not reflect the entire faith and practices. I tried to find the most extreme versions of their rituals to push our boundaries.

• Sokushinbutsu: Monk dying (video, 2 mins)

• Wisdom Keepers of the Apache Tribes (Video, 2 mins)

• Living on top of Tombs: Manilla, Philippines (YouTube, 21 mins)

• Raw Anointing of the Spirit (video, 3 mins)

• Personalized Ghana Burial Rituals (video, 3 mins)

• The Igorots, the indigenous peoples of the Northern Philippines (Website)

• Shaolin Monks (Video, 6 mins)

• Mysterious World of West African Voodoo (video, 5 mins)

  • Rated-R: animal sacrifice

• The Head of a Satanic Temple Explains Satanism (Video, 5 mins)

• The Living Mummies of Japan - Sokushinbutsu Monks (Video, 6 mins)

  • Rated-R: malnourished bodies

  • A rare sect of Japanese monks hoping to reach a higher realm through starvation. 

• Congregation speaks in tongues when led by the Holy Spirit (Video, 3 mins)

• Golden Crown: Female Circumcision (Video) Rated - R for sensitive topic

• Baby baptism in Georgia (video, 1 mins)  (rated R for sensitive material)

• The Living Dead: How The Toraja People Of Indonesia Honor Their Deceased (video)(rated R for blood and animal sacrifice)

• National Geographic explores how Torajan (website)

  • Indonesia's Toraja people keep their dead relatives in their homes, treating them as if they were alive until they can be given expensive, elaborate funerals.

Materials added by current and former students

(If you have one you would like me to add, message me or add it to any of your initial posts or replies.)

• Jehovah's Witnesses Explained in 2 Minutes (Video)

• Catholic V Christian (Video)

• Kids speaking in Tongues at Church (YouTube, 1 min)