KERYGMA model for Zeliangrong people
Chapter 1 Zeliangrong culture and primal religious beliefs 1. The origin of Zeliangrong people The rich cultural heritage of the Zeliangrong is reflected in their varieties of arts. This project will not be able to contain the whole cultural practices and beliefs of the Zeliangrong people. However, it will highlight few vital aspects of the people. Racially, physically and linguistically, Zeliangrong are Tibeto-Burman (Indo-Mongoloid) of Sino-Tibetan family of the Mongolian race. Culture is a social setting in which, a certain reference framework has taken a concrete form, or has been institutionalized. It is a storehouse of knowledge, experiences, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, timing, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and the objects and possessions acquired by a large group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving (Samova and Porter). [1] The study attempts to defin...