In Bali, where 92 percent of the population follows a form of Hinduism based on ancestor worship and animism dating back to the first century, Nyepi is taken extremely seriously.

Religion in Trunyan is even more dense with animism than most Balinese Hinduism. The village, dominated by a grand temple whose 11 pagodas mirror the 11 corpses exposed in the cemetery, has a ...

Putu’s hopes for the future are shared with the vast majority of Balinese, an island where a hybrid Hindu-Buddhist religion based on ancestor worship and animism dating back to the first ...

A Balinese woman in the courtyard of Pura Besakih, the holiest Hindu temple in Bali. The temple complex, on the slope of Mount Agung, survived the last eruption of the volcano in 1963, when lava ...

The Balinese holiday commemorates the start of the Hindu new year, which is when people take the time to stop, reflect, ... which combines traditional Hinduism with animism, ...

Bali could label itself the Island of Hinduism That Time Forgot. The names of shops and streets are overtly Sanskritized, temples ornate and plentiful, and Balinese leave the local equivalent of ...

Religion in Trunyan is even more dense with animism than most Balinese Hinduism. The village, dominated by a grand temple whose 11 pagodas mirror the 11 corpses exposed in the cemetery, ...