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(Re)animating the ancestors: Digital personality emulations, ancestor veneration and ethics

New Media & Society
Veneration of paternal ancestors plays an important role in Chinese tradition. In this article, we offer some speculations about how a new ‘thanatechnology’ – digital personality emulation – may impact on ancestor worship. We explore the ethical issues raised by the use of personality emulations for this purpose, drawing on Confucian, Daoist and ...
Robert Sparrow, Ellen Y Zhang
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The art of establishing and maintaining contact with ancestors: A study of Bapedi tradition

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
Looking at Bapedi ancestor veneration constructively, one finds it a source of communication that enhances the community’s norms, values and personal well-being.
Morakeng E.K. Lebaka
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Ancestor worship in Korea and Africa: Social function or religious phenomenon?

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2004
Ancestor worship is a dilemma for Christian communities in Korea and Africa, who have difficulty adapting Western theology to their Third World cultures.
Choon Sup Bae
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Religion in Chinese social and political history [PDF]

, 2011
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Palmer, DA
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Ancestral beliefs in modern cultural and religious practices – The case of the Bapedi tribe

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
There is no consensus among scholars of myth as to how the central concept of their field should be defined. What is a ‘myth’ and how does it differ from a ‘belief’?
Morakeng E.K. Lebaka
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Why dig looted tombs? Two examples and some answers from Keushu (Ancash highlands, Peru) [PDF]

, 2010
Looted tombs at Andean archaeological sites are largely the result of a long tradition of trade in archaeological artefacts coupled with the 17th century policy of eradicating ancestor veneration and destroying mortuary evidence in a bid to “extirpate ...
A. Gallay, A. Herrera, A. Herrera, A. Herrera, A.C. Berry, B. Herrmann, C. Torres-Rouff, C.F.A. Moorees, C.F.A. Moorees, C.G. Turner II, D.E. Blom, D.H. Ubelaker, H. Duday, H. Urbano, J. Bruzek, J. Leclerc, K. Gerdau-Radonic, L. Scheuer, M. Brickley, M. Curatola, P. Duviols, P. Duviols, P. Gose, P. Murail, P.A. Owings-Webb, P.J. Arriaga de, S.I. Perez, S.R. Saunders   +27 more
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Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
This article reflects on the impact of the inculturation of liturgy in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church (EEC) on identity formation within the context of African Christianity.
Phumezile Kama, John S. Klaasen
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Dreaming Ancestors Among African American: A Challenge to the Modern Igbo People [PDF]

, 2013
This study examines the ancestral dream, an element of ancestor veneration that has persisted, in African religious life since the arrival of their enslaved ancestors in this country.
Anedo, O
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Redefining Religious Nones: Lessons from Chinese and Japanese American Young Adults

Religions, 2015
This analysis of Chinese and Japanese American young adults, based on the Pew Research Center 2012 Asian American Survey, examines the religious nones of these ethnic groups. Rather than focusing on their beliefs and belonging to religious denominations,
Russell Jeung, Brett Esaki, Alice Liu
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Is Ancestor veneration the most universal of all world religions? A critique of modernist cosmological bias

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2014
Research by anthropologists engaged with the Comparative Austronesia Project (Australian National University) has amassed an enormous data set for ethnological comparison between the religions of Austronesian-speaking societies, a language group to which
Thomas Reuter
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