1600-1046 B.C.E), well before Confucianism and Taoism. Folk religions originated in shamanism, and today include a broad range of beliefs and practices directed at supernatural forces — such as ...

Taoism, also known as Daoism, is an ancient Chinese philosophy and spiritual tradition that gave excellent life lessons to ...

This article looks at the history and development of Taoism. Taoism has no founder and no founding date. It grew out of various religious and philosophical traditions in ancient China, including ...

Later mythological developments cast Lao Tzu in three roles - the original pure manifestation of the Tao as a God, the human philosopher who wrote the Tao Te Ching, and the Buddha. To suggest that ...

In the dream, he asked the man to erect a shrine to him. As a priest, Lu often heard complaints from homosexual Taoist adherents that there was no god to answer their prayers. Believing one of his ...

In the ceremony a Taoist priest dedicates the offerings in the names of the families, performs a ritual to restore order to the universe, and asks the gods to bring peace and prosperity to the ...

(iv) Each Taoist deity statue costs at least S$500. 5. According to paragraph 5, _____is popular with people in the early twenties and thirties. A. worship of multiple gods gradually gave way to ...