What are the cultural factors and induces that might affect who we idolize in such a way as students in Vancouver in 2021?
In your opinion, do you think there is a place for something like a camera in religious rituals like the one described in Canals’ article?
how did you find Canals’ writing? Methodology?
do you think that it matters how snakes are depicted in religions/belief systems? Why?
To what extent culture shapes religion? How much do you think a religion changes from country to country? And to what ends could spiritist leaders use their influence?
Why Sarita Colonia? Why would they have picked her of all people to become a saint? Do you think it was just random popular imagination that canonized Sarita Colonia or is there a reason behind it?
what are some parallels that stood out to you while reading about the traditions and rituals of the cult of Maria Lionza and do you think your own religion had any impact on why these particulars stuck out to you?
What is the process by which some individuals, like Sarita Colonia, become saints?
Why is it important, for the people who have faith in these practices, to learn from those who have been possessed?
what defines a cult and a religion? The cult of María Lionza adapts aspects of Christianity and it is widely performed across Venezuela and other Latin American countries, so why isn’t it referred to as a religion? Finally, the term religion doesn’t have the negative connotation that cult does. Could referring to it as a cult give them a bad reputation?
