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Your search for: ancestor AND worship AND culture


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Books on: ancestor worship culture

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Encyclopedia Articles on: ancestor worship culture

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  • China
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...for aspects of Chinese culture that are not treated...Buddhism, Taoism, and ancestor worship were practiced in an...religious groups. Places of worship for unregistered Christian...region. The subsequent culture shows marked similarity...
     
  • Animism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor argued in Primitive Culture (1871) that this belief was the most primitive and...rituals. See fetish ; taboo ; amulet ; idol ; shaman ; ancestor worship . ____________________ Copyright...
     
  • Burkina Faso
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...by their subjects, but by using religion (based on ancestor worship) and a complex administrative system (which allowed...Bibliography See P. B. Hammond, Yatenga: Technology in the Culture of a West African Kingdom (1966); D. M. McFarland...
     
  • Quetzalcoatl
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the Aztec linked it with the worship of the war god Huitzilopotchtli...legendary Quetzalcoatl was an ancestor of his Maya counterpart, Kulkulcan...probably assimilated into the Maya culture by this time, the invaders...obvious connection with serpent worship. See L. Sejourne, Burning...