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Ancestor Worship and Korean Society

Book by Dawnhee Yim Janelli; Stanford University, 1982

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Ancestor Worship--Korea (South)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

worship. Ritual manuals and etiquette...differences between the two ritual systems. Terminology...shamanism. "Ancestor rituals" chesa belong to "ancestor worship" chosang sungbae...Although seances and ancestor rites are assigned...in common: feeding ancestors. Ancestor seances...
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The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship

Book by Caroline Humphrey, James Laidlaw; Clarendon Press, 1994

Subjects:

Jainism--Rituals, Ritual, Worship (Jainism)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...background as the most revered ancestor of the discipline, an anthropologist...some very obvious reasons why rituals seem to fit this bill and...developed in this book. The ritual commitment itself is a social act. Obviously rituals are institutions, regularly...rate repeatedly performed. Ritual actors, we have said, are...
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The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints, and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia

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

Subjects:

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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...193 . This change in ritual presents just another...represent that type of hero worship that most strongly resembles...distinctive ritual activity of ancestor worship. It is best understood...fighters into the national worship performed on Heroes...
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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

...their turn in performing the ritual worship until they had finished settling...mentioned that the manner of worship in the T clan temple was not...information concerning the ancestor festivals in other ancestral...advance. At the end of the rituals, members of the clan who...
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The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead - Vol. 1

Book by J. G. Frazer; Macmillan, 1913

Subjects:

Ancestor Worship--Oceania, Burial, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--Oceania, Immortality--Comparative Studies, Oceania--Religion, Oceania--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...in their account of the religious ritual they do not distinguish between the worship which was paid to such deities and...assume that what is told us of the worship of gods in general holds good of the worship of deified men in particular. Every...

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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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...the same ritual. This is...underlying ancestor worship; the rituals readily lend...such. The ritual practice of ancestor worship is generative...descendants and ancestors, socially...Religion and Ritual in Chinese...Aspects of Ancestor Worship in Northern Taiwan". In Ancestors, edited...
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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 LIVING: IBAN ANCESTOR WORSHIP AND THE VIOLATION...the worship of ancestors and the maintenance...article examines ancestor worship and the...of disrespect. Ancestor worship involves the claim that dead ancestors can influence and...to traditional rituals and other practices...this approach, ritual taboos involve...
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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 ancestor worship category. For...spirits," non-ancestors. . . . Similarly...the Mardu lack ancestor worship because...their religious rituals focus on "Ancestral...indicates that ancestor worship was a vital...claims that ancestors influence the...not practice ancestor worship. For...in religious rituals "are thought...
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A Ritual Community: The Religious Practices of Spirit Mediums Who Worship the Spirit of the Chiang Mai City Pillar

Journal article by Kazuo Fukuura; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 26, 2011

Subjects:

Chiang Mai, Thailand--Religious aspects, Chiang Mai, Thailand--Social aspects, Rites and ceremonies, Ritual, Rituals, Spiritualism, Worship--Methods, Worship--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...possession rituals, as the...During the ritual, performed...in spirit worship in which the officiant worships the spirits...of spirit worship with the...cult that worships the tutelary...through their ritual practice...possession rituals as annual...matrilineal ancestor spirit cults...matrilineal ancestor spirits around...such spirit worship groups that...collective rituals of mediumship...basis, the ritual structure...
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Christianity and the Proliferation of Ancestors: Changes in Hierarchy and Mortuary Ritual in the Cameroon Grassfields

Journal article by Michael Jindra; Africa, Vol. 75, 2005

Subjects:

Cameroon--Social aspects, Christianity--Evaluation, Christianity--Social aspects, Rites and ceremonies--Forecasts and trends, Rites and ceremonies--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--Social aspects, Ritual--Forecasts and trends, Ritual--Religious aspects, Ritual--Social aspects, Rituals--Forecasts and trends, Rituals--Religious aspects, Rituals--Social aspects, United Kingdom--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...dead appeared meant an ancestor was unhappy and signalled the need for a ritual to prevent any misfortune...him through libation rituals. A Noni civil servant...priests translate to ancestors who receive libations...becomes a potential ancestor, with the right to...and concern for the ancestors quickly became channeled...ancestors entered Catholic ritual formally in the late...

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Respecting Our Ancestors: Christianity & the Confucian Tradition

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Respecting Our Ancestors: Christianity the...Confucian tradition of ancestor veneration. So it...and female (Taipo) ancestors, and to set out two...would repeat the same ritual at the shrine of my...ambivalent about these rituals. Protestants in Taiwan...Another reason these rituals were an unforgettable...share in someone elses ritual meal. People ask how...
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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

Subjects:

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

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...Land Is Worn out : Eating Corn with the Ancestors. by Teake Zuidima Dona Christina Arjona...have come to eat with their deceased ancestors. They are in the garden now, drinking...rezo is really a centuries-old Mayan ritual wrapped in Catholic prayers and songs...
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"Amen" and "Ashe": African American Protestant Worship and Its West African Ancestor

Magazine article by Will Coleman; Cross Currents, Vol. 52, Summer 2002

Subjects:

African Americans--Religion, Cosmology--Religious aspects, Liturgies, Protestantism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...American Protestant worship and its West African ancestor. by Will Coleman In...dimension. These are the ancestors. The ancestors are...Finally, even the ritual objects are viewed...Ile" or place of worship where the community...This system and the rituals related to it have...they also engage in a ritual of consuming small...
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The Secret of Cladh Hallan

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

Subjects:

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

...strongly suggests that ancestor worship was stronger in prehistoric...other areas, revered ancestors were preserved for...communal power. Strange rituals "The South Uist mummies...a bizarre series of ritual activities, many of...continued to be used for rituals until about 400 BC...Significantly, the range of ritual activity detected within...
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Scholars and the Goddess: Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are Almost Certainly Bunk

Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, January 2001

Subjects:

Goddesses, Religions, Witchcraft

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...because Wiccans neither worship Satan nor practice the...Wiccan teachings and rituals written by Starhawk...such things as Masonic ritual and a late-nineteenth...trumpeted, borrowing from rituals created early in the...detailed framework of ritual and belief. From his...feast that stood as ancestor to Easter"--a festival...

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Was Your Ancestor a Cannibal? It's a Spine-Chilling Discovery- Hundreds of Expertly Butchered Human Bones That Suggest Cannibalism Was Rife among Early man.What's Even More Shocking Is That the Victims May Have Been HAPPY to Be Eaten ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 12, 2009

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

Was Your Ancestor a Cannibal? Its...of shamanism and ancestor worship, and the heart...of ancient tribal rituals that to us seem...reverent religious ritual. In the wars between...was a religious ritual. At the end of...
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Was Your Ancestor a Cannibal? It's a Spine-Chilling Discovery - Hundreds of Expertly Butchered Human Bones That Suggest Cannibalism Was Rife among Early man.What's Even More Shocking Is That the Victims May Have Been HAPPY to Be Eaten ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 28, 2010

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

Was Your Ancestor a Cannibal? Its...of shamanism and ancestor worship, and the heart...of ancient tribal rituals that to us seem...reverent religious ritual. In the wars between...was a religious ritual. At the end of...
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IS THIS Man a God? Prince Philip May Have His Detractors Here, but the Mail Travelled to the Tiny Pacific Island of Tanna Where the Natives Literally Worship Him as a Living Deity - and They're Praying for the Second Coming ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 3, 2006

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

...Where the Natives Literally Worship Him as a Living Deity - and...legend tells how this spiritual ancestor ended up in England - and eventually...and his people continue to worship, shows the Duke holding a...of their community over the ritual kava. And so the first official...
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An Exhibition from Another Planet; Alien's Eye-View: Ben Patterson's Flying Double Bass, One of the Contemporary Art Works in the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art at the Barbican

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 6, 2008

Subjects:

Art museums--Exhibitions, Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Mars (Planet), Modern art--Exhibitions, Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions

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

...descent", "magic and belief ", "ritual and communication". Early in the show...version ofDuchamps urinal categorised as Ancestor Worship. Further on, you will find Richard...religion full ofsacred objects and bizarre rituals. Still they havent quite worked it all...
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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

...trouble and distress; this developed into a form of ancestor worship embodied in ancestral busts sometimes located with the...sometimes in the tomb. Spells were to be recited with some ritual -- the time of day important, the direction in which...

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Religion

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...emergence of objects of devotion, to rituals of propitiation, to priests and shamans...in the presence of these forces (see ancestor worship ; totem ; spiritism ). In a third class...incorporated into a system of mythology and ritual. Sometimes they take on distinctively...
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Tibetan Buddhism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Buddhism, but much of its ritual is based on the esoteric mysticism...shamanistic elements. The worship also includes reciting prayers...eliminate any vestiges of Bon ritual from the religion. He was...Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, ancestor of the Tibetan people, and...

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