Search results for "Ancestor Worship" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Ancestor worship or veneration has been widely practiced by the Chinese throughout history from the Taoist perspective in which the deceased ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 17:32, 11 October 2020
- relics rather than active places of worship. Several schools for religious ... reject these rituals as a form of ancestor worship, which they consider ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- * Smith, Robert J. Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan. Stanford University Press, 1974. ISBN 0804708738 * Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse, and Mariko ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- and some also tended to have elements of ancestor worship though generalizations are invidious given the extreme heterogeneity of Melanesian societies. ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- cultures. In Chinese culture, ancestor worship and divination practices date back to time immemorial. The Chinese philosopher, Mo Tzu (470-391 ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- of Latin and Greek in Europe. It is an ancestor of the modern Indo-Aryan ... the destruction of the world, the worship of the gods, the attainment ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- impact twenty-first century Korea through ancestor worship, respect for elders, and concepts of filial piety, and the willingness to embrace social reform. ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 21:41, 6 October 2022
- life, patterns of thought, preaching and worship.They were determined to ... ceremonial rites of Confucianism and ancestor worship were primarily social ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- in his organism, and it came from some ancestor … Is any blame attached ... to any religious establishment or mode of worship. So far as we know, there ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- his idols, calling on his community to worship God instead. They then cast ... night and day, they could not be worthy of worship. He concluded that there ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- Buddhist. Vietnamese widely practice ancestor worship and Confucianism. In ... native animism with with strong emphasis on Ancestor Worship. ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- evolved from a primitive form of animism or ancestor worship to progressively higher levels of relationship with the divine. Later scholars became more ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a historically and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- Moai, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and ...33 KB (5,262 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- His alleged paternal ancestor Jasper Tudor was a younger brother of ... Prayer was replaced with a Directory of Worship, and bishops were abolished ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- Japan, and generally characterized by ancestor worship and respect for relationships ... related to the Chinese sanxian, and ancestor of the Japanese shamisen ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- to Ningizzida. Ningizzida was the ancestor of Gilgamesh, who according ... * Deane, John Bathurst. The Worship of the Serpent. Mokelumne Hill ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- who were said to be the offspring of the ancestor of Japan, Amaterasu. Before ... occupation authorities for permission to worship the Sun Goddess. Some have ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- tend to revolve around animism and ancestor worship. A common thread in traditional belief systems was the division of the spiritual world into ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- animism, vitalism, spirit and ancestor worship, witchcraft, and sorcery ... a human motif, including statues of ancestor figures or spirits that ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
