Religion and Social CommunicationAncestor veneration is considered by some to be a primitive custom, outdated, and with no relevance to modern society. In this study, however, the researcher will show that ancestor veneration is alive and practiced in various cultures, especially among ...
Longginus Farneubun, Rico Casta Jacoba
doaj +1 more source
Master Questions, Student Questions, and Genuine Questions: A Performative Analysis of Questions in Chan Encounter Dialogues [PDF]
, 2020 I want to know whether Chan masters and students depicted in classical Chan transmission literature can be interpreted as asking open (or what I will call “genuine”) questions.
Dickman, Nathan Eric
core +1 more source
A Flexible Indeterminate Theory of Religion: Thinking through Chinese Religious Phenomena
Religions, 2019 This essay explores a few of the reasons for the failure of Western theories to capture Chinese religious experiences. It will include Durkheim’s insight that “The sacred … is society in disguised form” and variants of secularization theories in contrast
Tak-ling Terry Woo
doaj +1 more source
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 +27 more
core +1 more source
ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBOAfricans are in the habit of venerating the dead among them who qualify as ancestors. The practice of ancestral veneration in Africa, particularly amongst the Yòrùbá people of West Africa, is premised on their belief in continual existence after death.
Oreoluwa Idris ADESANYA
doaj +1 more source
Attitudes Towards Aeneas in Roman Asia Minor [PDF]
, 2017 This paper won a first place writing flag award in the research category. Christopher Layden, writing for Adam Rabinowitz’s UGS 302 class, “Tales of the Trojan War”.Rabinowitz, AdamUndergraduate ...
Layden, Christopher
core +1 more source
The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2015 Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
core +1 more source
Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages: The Relations between Religion, Church, and Society [PDF]
, 1995 Reviewed Book: Bredero, Adriaan Hendrik. Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages: The Relations between Religion, Church, and Society.
Erb, Peter C.
core +1 more source
Harnessing the ancestors: mutuality, uncertainty and ritual practice in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa [PDF]
, 2014 In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, chronic economic uncertainty has seen social relations stretched to breaking point. Informants speak of a 'war between men and women'.
Ainslie, Andrew
core +1 more source
Defining Ifugao Social Organization: “House,” Field, and Self-Organizing Principles in the Northern Philippines [PDF]
, 2013 The idea that complex agricultural and irrigation systems lead to centralized control has been refuted in the last three decades. Indeed, ethnographic and archaeological literatures regarding this relationship have been forthcoming in recent years.
Acabado, Stephen
core +1 more source