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| | Ancestor worship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ancestor worship (拜祖), also ancestor veneration (敬祖), is a religious practice based on the belief that one's ancestors possess supernatural powers. | | | Rather, ancestor worship involves the same sort of religious practices one sees when people appease or supplicate other entities thought to exist and possess supernatural powers, such as gods, angels, saints, or demons. | | | Ancestor worship in some cultures (such as Chinese) seeks to honor the deeds, memories, and sacrifice of the deceased. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestor_worship
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - ANCESTOR WORSHIP: |
| | It is contended that the Feast of Purim is a relic of household worship. | | | xxi., and are elsewhere not divine or used in divine worship, but for the purpose of divination. | | | At present the view that the original religion of the Israelites was some form of Ancestor Worship is the only one that has been put forward scientifically or systematically, together with an explanation of the changes made by the later and true religion of Israel. |
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| | The worship is not a religion in and of itself, but a facet of religious expression which recognizes an element beyond human control. | | | Ancestor worship does not play a part in the many religions of India although they do possess a strong reverence for the past. | | | In China, the main importance of this worship is the continuity of the family and reverence for the wisdom of the elders. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/ancestor_worship.html
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| | ancestor worship on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Ancestor worship is based on the belief that the spirits of the dead continue to dwell in the natural world and have the power to influence the fortune and fate of the living. | | | ANCESTOR WORSHIP [ancestor worship] ritualized propitiation and invocation of dead kin. | | | Water, huacas, and ancestor worship: traces of a sacred Wari landscape. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a1/ancestor.asp
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| | However, the core of ancestor worship is the belief in the continuing existence of the dead and in a close relation between the living and the dead (who continue to influence the affairs of the living). | | | Ancestor Worship is generally any variety of religious beliefs and practices concerned with the spirits of dead persons regarded as relatives, some of whom may be mythical. | | | The Chinese people are generally too pragmatic for religions, and they already have a form of religion &; ancestor worship. |
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| | FORTES- SOME REFLECTIONS ON ANCESTOR WORSHIP IN AFRICA |
| | Worship in rituals of prayer and sacrifice,the observance of religious prescriptions in the form of taboo andinjunction, and submission to such moral norms as the incest prohibition,may all be validated by reference to what we describe as spiritualbeings, be they gods or ancestors or nature deities. | | | The distinguishedand erudite authority on Chinese religion and philosophy, J.J. M.De Groot, was typical in his view that 'the worship of the deadin China is the worship of the ancestors' (1910. | | | If ancestor worship is subsumed underthe worship of the dead then its meaning must be sought in customarybeliefs an practices concerning death, the soul, ghost, spirits, andthe after-life. |
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| | Ancestor Worship |
| | Ancestor worship is any of a variety of religious beliefs and practices concerned with the spirits of dead persons regarded as relatives, some of whom may be mythical. | | | The core of ancestor worship is the belief in the continuing existence of the dead and in a | | | Death cults, the worship of dead heroes who may or may not be regarded as ancestors, and clearly distinguishable rites of ancestor worship may all exist in the same society. |
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http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/anthro2003/religion/ancestor_worship1.html
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| | INTR 532 Bibliographies: Ancestors |
| | The burden of the essay is to argue for the portraiture of the Christ as the eldest son and an ancestor within the context of Vietnamese culture and religious traditions and in light of feminist liberation theology. | | | Ancestor worship is still prevalent among the three million Chinese in Thailand and serves as a form of socio-cultural identity for this minority group. | | | The two missionary conferences on ancestor worship in the later 19th century finalized the division between the evangelical and liberal churches in the Protestant Church in China. |
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http://www.wheaton.edu/intr/Moreau/courses/532/biblio/ancestors.htm
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| | Chinese Ancestor Worship - ReligionFacts.com |
| | Ancestor worship (also called ancestor veneration) is a ritual practice that is based on the belief that deceased family members have a continued existence, take an interest in the affairs of the world, and possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living. | | | Ancestor worship begins at the deceased kin's funeral, at which necessities like a toothbrush, comb, towel, shoes, water, or even a computer are placed in the coffin or burned as a sacrifice. | | | Rituals of ancestor worship most commonly consist of offerings to the deceased to provide for their welfare in the afterlife, which is envisioned as being similar to the earthly life. |
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http://www.religionfacts.com/chinese_religion/rituals_practices/ancestor_worship.htm
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| | Ancestor Worship |
| | Ancestor Worship is reverence granted to deceased relatives who are believed to have become powerful spiritual beings or, less frequently, to have attained the status of gods. | | | Ancestor worship is a strong indication of the value placed on the household and of the strong ties that exist between the past and the present. | | | The cult of ancestor worship is common, although not universal. |
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| | ANCESTOR-WORSHIP - LoveToKnow Article on ANCESTOR-WORSHIP |
| | In the worship of the Lares the head of a Roman household commemorated and reinforced the blood tie which made one 1 flesh of all its members living and dead. | | | There the mighty dead are present with the living, protect them and their houses and crops, are their strength in battle, and teach their hands to war and their fingers to fight. | | | All over the earth we meet with such periodically recurrent ceremonies of expelling demons and ghosts, who usually are given a meal before being hunted back into their graves. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AN/ANCESTOR_WORSHIP.htm
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| | Ancestor worship occurs in ancient cultures all over the world, and even in modern times it plays an important role in primitive religions. | | | These ancestors can assert their powers by blessing or cursing, and their worship is inspired by both respect and fear. | | | The ancestors of the tribe are honored as spirits who preserve the moral standards of tribal life. |
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| | Sacrifices were also an important aspect of ancestor worship because "the ancestors had the power to aid or punish their descendants according to their pleasure" (Bary 1960:7). | | | Each time a Chinese person worships an ancestor they are not only asking for help as a Christian would with their God, but they are also celebrating their heritage. | | | I believe this to be the basis of Chinese ancestor worship. |
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| | Ancestor worship was originally more of a fear than a worship, but such beliefs did definitely contribute to the further spread of ghost fear and worship. | | | The advancing ghost cult made ancestor worship inevitable since it became the connecting link between common ghosts and the higher spirits, the evolving gods. | | | As ghosts were envisioned as passing from the incomplete to the higher phase of existence, so did the cult eventually progress to the worship of spirits, and even gods. |
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| | Ancestor Worship Ancestor Veneration Ancestor Worship Ritual Questia.com Online Library |
| | Revolving around "ancestor worship," the indigenous religion of...religion in South Africa as "ancestor worship" to distinguish it as a species...Asia. | | | The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Vol. | | | Ancestor Worship and Korean Society Ancestor Worship and Korean Society ROGER L. ancestor cult. |
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| | WowEssays.com - Ancestor Worship |
| | Still, Confucius fasted, worshiped the ancestors, attended sacrifices and sought to live in harmony with Heaven. | | | Ancestor Worship A central feature of Chinese funerals and post-burial mortuary practices has been the transfer of food, money and goods to the deceased. | | | Taoists worship more deities than do the followers of almost any other religion. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ancestor Worship |
| | Ancestor Worship, reverence granted to deceased relatives who are believed to have become powerful spiritual beings or, less frequently, to have... | | | The Hopi religion, like that of other Pueblo peoples, included the worship of the forces of nature and had many ceremonies intended to invoke or... | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ancestor Worship |
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| | ancestor worship -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The worship of Dionysus spread throughout the Greek land especially in Delphi with the unanimous decision of the priests. | | | The oldest form of Finno-Ugric religion is thought to be ancestor worship. | | | The worship of ancestors must be understood as... |
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| | And even sadder is the mixture of the pagan ritual of ancestor worship and church services whose leadership have been duped into believing that Kwanzaa is merely a "cultural" event. | | | One of the first activities of Kwanzaa is the pouring of libation (tambiko) for the ancestors. | | | " section, ancestor worship is another form of a religious additive in what is supposed to be known as a non-religious celebration. |
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http://www.christocentric.com/Kwanzaa/ancestor.htm
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| | "Ancestor Worship and Kinship Structure in Korea." in Religion and Ritual in Korea. | | | One lecture will be dedicated to the examination of the general contours of ancestor worship rituals, and will be followed by subsequent lectures that explore particular aspects of ritual performance of ancestor worship in greater detail. | | | In the second week, we will engage the field of ancestor worship (chosang sungbae) in Korea, including considerations of the history of such worship and the implications of ancestor worship in contemporary society. |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/k187.html
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| | Ching Ming, Ching Ming, ancestor worship, Ching Ming Festival, Grave-Sweeping Day, Clear and Bright Festival, public ... |
| | Confucianism and Taoism are considered philosophies rather than religions; a form of ancestor worship is incorporated into Confucian philosophy. | | | Ching means "pure" or "clean," and ming means "brightness." The phrase "Ching Ming" is linked to the Chinese tradition of ancestor worship, which many consider the original religion of China and its only native religion, dating back 3,000 years. | | | The practice of ancestor worship is based on three beliefs: |
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http://www.4to40.com/discoverindia/festivals/index.asp?article=discoverindia_festivals_chingming
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| | This ancient observance - combining elements of both worship and respect - is the demonic fruit of several other major Hakka religions and philosophies. | | | Probably the biggest obstacle standing in the way of most Hakka Chinese getting saved is the fear that they'll have to give up the worship of their dead ancestors. | | | And one soul enters into the family's ancestor tablet where it resides for the duration. |
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| | PBS Online: Hidden Korea/Ch'usok |
| | Food is offered to the ancestors and every dish must be passed over burning incense before it is acceptable. | | | All across Korea, the eldest sons of the family will clean and prepare the burial mounds of their most recently deceased ancestor. | | | Some of the food is set out around the tomb facing certain directions in conformity with the Confucian belief that cardinal points on the compass have mystical powers. |
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http://www.pbs.org/hiddenkorea/chusok.htm
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| | The ancestors were invited to them and left at the end of the festive cycles. | | | Commemorative meals or feasts were held at certain times of the year. | | | Death was viewed as a departure or displacement in space, which did not sever the ties between the dead and the living. |
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http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/A/N/Ancestorworship.htm
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| | Ancestor Worship - Looking at the Altar |
| | Normally altars are taken down forty-nine days after the person's death, because the altar was used by the family for paying respects to the recently deceased during the forty-nine-day period, when the spirit of the deceased is going through judgment. | | | After this altar was taken down, my grandfather was considered one of our ancestors, and my family paid their respects to him along with the other ancestors." | | | "Growing up in Taiwan, our holidays always included ancestor worship. |
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http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/teen/altar.htm
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| | Ancestor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In other cultural contexts, some people seek providence from their deceased ancestors; this practice is sometimes known as ancestor worship or, more accurately, ancestor veneration. | | | Some cultures place great reverence on ancestors, both living and dead; contrastingly, people in more youth-oriented cultural contexts may display a lesser degree of veneration for elders. | | | Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor; in evolutionary theory, species who share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. |
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| | Chinese - American Teens Look at Ancestor Worship Today |
| | Chinese - American Teens Look at Ancestor Worship Today | | | The Sackler's Education Department asked a team of Chinese-American teenagers to look within their own communities for contemporary examples of ancestor worship. |
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http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/teen
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| | And the Setons were ever a great house, zealous of honour, loyal unto death. | | | The Maitlands of Lethington and Thirlestane, ancestors of the present Earls of Lauderdale, were then as eminent as the Setons. | | | Sir Richard, whose mother Martha was daughter to the 4th Lord Seton (and sister to the immortal Mary Seton, devoted companion of Mary, Queen of Scots), was a Lord of Session, Keeper of the Privy Seal, a formidable lawyer and a talented poet. |
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| | suburban blight: ANCESTOR WORSHIP |
| | Many of my ancestors died fighting on the losing side. | | | The structure of the federal government reflects the strong hand of centralization, and slaves were freed. |
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