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Religions, 2020 Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng 新加坡廣惠肇碧山亭 (hereafter PST) is a non-profit organization registered under Singapore’s Societies Ordinance, founded in 1870 by Chinese immigrants from three prefectures of Guangdong province: Guangzhou 廣州, Zhaoqing 肇慶 and ...
Chi-cheung Choi
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Remembering Teesta and the Water Dragon
HIMALAYA, 2022 In this illustrated folk narrative, a muun, a traditional female shaman of the Lepcha tribe, takes us on a journey of the tribe’s origins, it’s connection to the ancestors, mother earth, and the sacred waters through the muun’s vision of the water dragon.
Alyen Leeachum Foning
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Withered Wood and Dead Ashes—Making Sense of the Sacred Bodies of Kamatari at Tōnomine
Religions, 2022 The portrait statue of Fujiwara Kamatari (614–669) enshrined at Tōnomine is well known for its agency and mantic powers. Known to crack whenever the stability of the clan was under threat, the icon was carefully observed and cared for.
Benedetta Lomi
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Quand les morts reviennent… Réflexion sur l’ancestralité chez les Mayas des Basses Terres
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2003 When the dead come home… Remarks on ancestor worship among the Lowland Mayas. In Amerindian ethnographical literature, ancestor worship is often mentioned but evidence of its existence is lacking.
Olivier Le Guen
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Moussons, 2020 Politics and religion have long been seen as conflicting domains in the Socialist Republic of Viêt Nam in official discourse. Yet, attention to local religious practice reveals long historical traditions of negotiation between local religious ...
Phương Anh Phan, Lauren Meeker
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Still under the ancestors' shadow? Ancestor worship and family formation in contemporary China
Demographic Research, 2018 Background: Ancestor worship in China used to be an indispensable component of marriage and family life because it fostered an orientation toward perpetuating the family line.
Anning Hu, Felicia Tian
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Religion, Nonreligion and the Sacred: Art and the Contemporary Rituals of Birth
Religions, 2021 This paper looks at the role of art and material culture in the rituals of birth, first taking into consideration research on material culture in traditional rituals of birth and then turning to the primary topic, which is how art in the contemporary ...
Anna M. Hennessey
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Filial Duties in the Ugaritic Epic of Danilu and Aqhatu
Collectanea Theologica, 2023 The list of filial duties from the Aqhatu story constitutes a passage unique to the literature of the ancient Near East, emphasized in the epic by its fourfold repetition in close proximity. This is why the list has attracted much attention of scholars,
Marcin Majewski
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Historical Origins of Circular Dance Ohuokhai: Structure, Semantics, Symbolism
Научный диалог, 2023 The relevance of studying is determined by the ongoing renaissance of the ohuohai dance in the cultural practice of modern Yakut people. The novelty of the research is seen in the proposal of a scientific version: circular dances following the course of ...
V. E. Vasiliev, M. T. Satanar
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The Protection and Utilization of the Architectural Space of Traditional Rural Ancestral Hall Architectural Space from the Perspective of Spatial Production Theory [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis paper explores the spatial activation of traditional rural ancestral halls. By applying the theory of spatial production, it analyzes the dilemmas faced by the activation of ancestral hall spaces from three dimensions: material space, social space ...
Chen Zhengyu
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