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Ancestor Worship and Korean Society

Book by Dawnhee Yim Janelli; Stanford University, 1982

Subjects:

Ancestor Worship--Korea (South)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...1967 , Korean shamanism and ancestor worship are not antithetical. Shamanism...inconsistency between shamanism and ancestor worship lies not in their goals or ritual...but in their belief systems. Ancestor worship idealizes ancestors. At ancestor...
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The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints, and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia

Book by Henri Chambert-Loir, Anthony Reid; Allen & Unwin, 2002

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Ancestor Worship--Indonesia, Cemeteries--Indonesia, Death--Symbolic Aspects--Indonesia, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--Indonesia, Indonesia--Religious Life And Customs, Indonesia--Social Life And Customs

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ANCESTORS Ancestor worship, as one way to communicate with...contradistinction to this earthly dimension, ancestor worship refers to the transcendent aspects...legitimate descendant: Thus it ancestor worship differs from mere veneration of...
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Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity

Book by Lewis Bayles Paton; Macmillan, 1921

Subjects:

Ancestor Worship, Dead, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies, Spiritualism

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...knew no other religion than ancestor- worship. Thus it came about that this...Other races have practised ancestor-worship as a subsidiary rite alongside...early as the classical books ancestor-worship had become the chief religion...
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The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change

Book by Katherine Verdery; Columbia University Press, 1999

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Ancestor Worship--Europe, Eastern, Ancestor Worship--Russia (Federation), Body, Human--Symbolic Aspects--Europe, Eastern, Body, Human--Symbolic Aspects--Russia (Federation), Dead--Political Aspects--Europe, Eastern, Dead--Political Aspects--Russia (Federation), Europe, Eastern--Politics And Government, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--Europe, Eastern, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--Russia (Federation), Russia (Federation)--Politics And Government

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...kinship groups and the land they live on; the link is ancestor worship. Ancestors were buried in the soil around the dwelling...in chapter 1 concerning nationalism as a kind of ancestor worship. 27 There I suggested that nationalisms are forms...
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Under the Ancestors' Shadow: Chinese Culture and Personality

Book by Francis L. K. Hsu; Columbia University Press, 1948

Subjects:

Ancestor Worship, China--Social Life And Customs

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Ching Ming visit to ancestral graveyards, and the ancestor-worship festival in the 7th Moon, continue for more than...of most-feared disasters. With the exception of ancestor worship, the occasions for offerings are to insure good...

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The Universality of Ancestor Worship

Journal article by Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, Christopher F. Tilley; Ethnology, Vol. 35, 1996

Subjects:

Ancestor worship--Social aspects, Religion, Primitive--Social aspects, Spiritualism--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The universality of ancestor worship. by Lyle B. Steadman , Craig...between religions that have ancestor worship and those that are said to lack...significant because even when ancestor worship is found in a majority of the...
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Disrespecting the Dead and the Living: Iban Ancestor Worship and the Violation of Mourning Taboos

Journal article by Reed L. Wadley; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999

Subjects:

Ancestor worship--Religious aspects, Religion--Research, Rites and ceremonies--Evaluation, Taboo--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...THE DEAD AND THE LIVING: IBAN ANCESTOR WORSHIP AND THE VIOLATION OF MOURNING...relationships, this article examines ancestor worship and the violation of mourning...interpretations of disrespect. Ancestor worship involves the claim that dead...
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Ancestor Worship and Identity: Ritual, Interpretation, and Social Normalization in the Malaysian Chinese Community

Journal article by Ian Clarke; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 15, 2000

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Ancestor Worship and Identity: Ritual, Interpretation...Chinese Community. by Ian CLARKE Ancestor worship has historically been one of the central...geographic boundaries. As such, ancestor worship has been a popular and fruitful area...
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Christian Ancestor Worship in Rome

Journal article by Ramsay MacMullen; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 129, 2010

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Cemeteries, Construction, Saints

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Christian Ancestor Worship in Rome by Ramsay MacMullen In studying...The certain and only answer is ancestor worship, to which the worship of the saints had been grafted on. Ancestor worship was a fixture in the lives of the...
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Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist "ancestor Worship" with Home Décor and Consumer Choice

Journal article by John Nelson; Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 35, 2008

Subjects:

Buddhism, Japan, Japanese culture, Rites & ceremonies, Social life & customs, Spirituality

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Japan: Rectifying Buddhist "ancestor Worship" with Home Decor and Consumer...usually rendered in English as "ancestor worship," yet is so culturally varied...opening. After the title, "Ancestor-Worship Chic," gave the impression...

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The Secret of Cladh Hallan

Magazine article by David Keys; Geographical, Vol. 75, June 2003

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Ancestor worship--Social aspects, Archaeology, Burial--Social aspects, Mummies--Discovery, exploration, etc., Prehistoric peoples--Discovery, exploration, etc., Prehistoric peoples--Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric peoples--Social aspects, Scotland--Discovery, exploration, etc., Scotland--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...mineralising the bones. The discovery--at Cladh Hallan near the southern end of South Uist--strongly suggests that ancestor worship was stronger in prehistoric times than scholars had previously thought. Saving the dead The older of the mummies...
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Respecting Our Ancestors: Christianity & the Confucian Tradition

Magazine article by Wan-Li Ho; Commonweal, Vol. 132, January 14, 2005

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Ancestor worship--Religious aspects, Fasts and feasts--Personal narratives, Harmony (Philosophy)--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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When the Land Is Worn out : Eating Corn with the Ancestors

Magazine article by Teake Zuidima; World and I, Vol. 18, June 2003

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Ancestor worship--Methods, Manners and customs--International aspects, Mexicans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Mexico--Fairs and festivals

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Software Problems in the African Renaissance Process

Magazine article by Femi Biko; New African, December 2000

Subjects:

Ancestor worship--Influence, Capitalism--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Decolonization--Economic aspects, Postmodernism--Economic aspects, Social change--Planning, Social structure--Economic aspects

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At the Turn of the Century: a Study of the China Centenary Missionary Conference of 1907

Magazine article by Kevin Xiyi Yao; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 32, April 2008

Subjects:

China, Christianity, Conferences, History, Memorials & monuments, Missionaries, Religious missions

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...were intense debates on Chinese ancestor worship, the relationship between preaching...the long-debated issue of ancestor worship. Although the majority opinion and final resolutions on ancestor worship failed to transcend the traditional...

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When Doubt, Not Faith, Can Lead You on the Path to Discovering Truth; OPINION

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 9, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in it or not. And its the same with religions. Theyre not called "faiths" for nothing, whether were talking ancestor worship or the religions of the book - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Theres no way of knowing for sure whether theres...
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THE DEATH BUSINESS; the Spells, Scrolls and Superstitions of the Ancient Egyptians Serve as a Reminder That Our View of the Afterlife Hasn't Changed Much in 5,000 Years

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 11, 2010

Subjects:

British Museum, Greek mythology

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...survival of the dead, for they could then be invoked in times of trouble and distress; this developed into a form of ancestor worship embodied in ancestral busts sometimes located with the family, sometimes in the tomb. Spells were to be recited...
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Facing One's Own Mortality; What the Death of a Loved One Does for the Next Generation

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 5, 2009

Subjects:

Mortality

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...over what happens to us when we die is absolved through rituals of various types; the funeral pyre, the eulogy, ancestor worship, mummification, you name it. Otherwise the loss would be too shocking and too irredeemable for many of us to go...
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China Bars Rights Dissident from Returning to Visit Grave: Embarrassment Feared during Zhu's Visit to U.S

Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, April 6, 1999

Subjects:

China

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...festival, an annual rite during which Chinese sweep the graves of their ancestors. It is a part of traditional Chinese ancestor worship practices that antedate even the sage Confucius. Mr. Wangs father died in February and the Chinese dissident decided...
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A Spoonful of Sugar: Quilty Secret

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 20, 2000

Subjects:

Sugar, Alan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...charges. ASHES TO CASH ..Dear Sir Alan I HAVE a novel idea for dealing with peoples ashes. The Japanese are into ancestor worship and would be my target audience. I contacted their embassy and received inappropriate literature. How can I get...

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Ancestor Worship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ANCESTOR WORSHIP ritualized propitiation and invocation of dead kin. Ancestor worship is based on the belief that the spirits...the fortune and fate of the living. Ancestor worship has been found in various parts of...
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China

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...religious freedom, but religious practice is not encouraged. Traditionally, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and ancestor worship were practiced in an eclectic mixture with varying appeals, and these religions have experienced a revival. Islam...
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Mossi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...contact with Muslims, the Mossi have retained their ancient traditional religion, which has a strong emphasis on ancestor worship. See P. B. Hammond, Yatenga (1966). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Maya , Indigenous People of Mexico and Central America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...were more probably heads of patrilineages (see kinship ), and that much of the religious complex was centered on ancestor worship rather than on universalist gods. In contrast to the civilizations of central Mexico, urbanization and occupational...
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Pentecostalism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...offshoots of the mission churches and wholly indigenous sects which adopt or tolerate beliefs and practices such as ancestor worship and polygamy. These Pentecostals, mostly nonwhites, abound in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Pentecostalism...

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